Twitter buys local discovery app Spindle with plans to launch its own service
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Twitter is slowly building additional features into the main service, and this new acquisition means it will make its formal entry into a local-travel and discovery sector, and may give a run for the money to other larger startups like Foursquare.
Twitter, which has been buying small startups with some amount of regularity over the last year or so, has now acquired Spindle, a local discovery and location startup. And as it has done with most of its small acquisitions, it has immediately shut down the service, and is absorbing the team, wi
