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Just when you thought Twitter was a dead duck, a flurry of news suggests there’s life in the old bird yet!
First up, rumors are circulating that Twitter has acquired Summize. There’s no official confirmation yet, but Summize’s search engine and sentiment analysis of Twitter would certainly make a sensible acquisition. Not so much for the public-facing interface, but for the gigabytes of useful information Summize can feed to Twitter’s developers.
Changing focus, VentureBeat reveals that, despite Twitter’s performance issues, the service is still growing strong. In fact, even new competitors such as FriendFeed and Plurk, didn’t prevent Twitter from reaching record levels of users in June. As VentureBeat suggests, at this point Twitter’s biggest enemy is itself.
Every time Twitter is offline, a competitor gets its wings! 
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Suddenly, I feel like I work for Soap Digest. But with the latest don’t-miss developments in The Young and the Profitless, we had to get a jump start on Season Two!
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I’m often accused of being a little "Alanis Morissette" with my liberal use of the word "ironic," but does anyone else find it ironic that the "who’s who" of media moguls are 
