While [Summify] is being closed down, it seems fairly obvious that Twitter bought the company to try to incorporate that kind of semantic filtering into its offerings — likely by beefing up its new “Discover” tab, which uses trending topics and other features to try and suggest interesting content to users. As it exists now, the Discover option isn’t very comprehensive or well-organized, and it makes sense for Twitter to try to do that better. One of the service’s challenges has always been to figure out how to keep new users engaged, since it isn’t clear to many what exactly Twitter is for.
Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future — Tech News and Analysis
This is good news – probably. I never use the new “Discover” tab on Twitter. And I’ve never used Summify, but was *just* checking it out last week because it was recommended by a Twitter service called formulists.com (which is shutting down, unfortunately). Their take on Summify was: “Summify creates a beautiful daily summary of the most relevant news from your social networks, and delivers it to you by email, web or mobile” Hmmm…