Twitter has acquired Boston-based local social startup Spindle, the "discovery engine for the social web."     

Twitter has acquired check-in app Spindle. Twitter will shut the service down, and utilize the team for its own efforts. Spindle says in a post on its blog: We’ve spent the past two and a half years building a product …

Twitter has acquired Spindle, a social startup focused on the location and check-in space, and discovering local places of interest nearby. “We’ve spent the past two and a half years building a product that helps you answer the question: ‘What’s happening nearby right now?’,” Spindle said in a company blog post. “Every time we’ve experimented [...]

Twitter has acquired Spindle, a location-based social discovery engine, the two companies announced Wednesday. The terms of the deal were not immediately disclosed. Spindle was founded two and a half years ago by former Microsoft engineers with the goal of helping users discover relevant content on social networks based on time and place. The startup raised $2.3 million in funding ...

Twitter acquired Spindle, an app for local discovering, today. The Spindle team will move to San Francisco and shutter the Spindle app.