Welcome to another Twitter Tuesday, where we're just in time to talk about Twitter's latest interesting acquisition. It's not a company or an app; it's the team at Fluther! This will be the first time a lot of people have heard of Fluther, so here's the scoop: Fluther is a site that sounds Twitter-related, but it's actually a question-and-answer community along the lines of Quora. Twitter's not buying the service or shutting it down, just snapping up the smart people behind the site, including co-founders Ben Finkel and Andrew McClain.
Fluther's blog says the team is leaving to become part of the "the next stage of Twitter's growth," but it's tricky to speculate about what that might be. Twitter already functions as a decent Q&A service on its own, and could simply have bought Fluther outright if it wanted something like that. We know analytics and new kinds of ads are coming to Twitter, but Fluther's founders and engineers will probably be cooking up something else entirely, and it will be interesting to see what it turns out to be.
As an interesting side note, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone invested in Fluther back in 2009, so the Fluther team has probably been on Twitter's radar for some time now.
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