SME Times News Bureau | 18 Apr, 2019
Twitter has acqui-hired quote sharing app Highly for an undisclosed sum.
Highly allows users to quickly highlight quotes from articles and share via email or social media.
Twitter
could develop its own version of Highly or other ways to excerpt the
best content from websites and get it into the timeline.
"We are
excited to welcome the Highly team to Twitter. Their expertise will
accelerate our product and design thinking around making Twitter more
conversational," Twitter told TechCrunch on Wednesday.
Highly would shut down its iOS and Slack apps on April 26.
"Social
highlights can make sharing stories online feel personal, efficient and
alive, like retelling a story to a friend over coffee. They give people
shared context and spark meaningful conversations," said Highly CEO
Andrew Courter.
"Highly exists to enable awesome convos, and
we're looking forward to bringing our Highly-informed perspective to
Twitter's work serving the public conversation," he posted on Medium.
