Twitter has acquired Canadian social news aggregator company, Summify for undisclosed amount

Twitter has acquired Canada-based social news aggregator Summify. Summify scans users social media accounts to produces a daily email summary of the top stories. Summify can analyze your Facebook account and your Google Reader account as well as your Twitter account if you’d like along with this your news summary is available via web, via RSS, via tablet, and via phone.

Twitter has not disclosed the amount it had payed to the company. The deal has taken effect immediately, with Summify’s operations being shut down and its team going to Twitter’s headquarters in San Francisco. Twitter has said Summify’s product will become a “more streamlined service” under Twitter’s ownership.

Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is quoted as saying that he doesn’t view Twitter as particularly social. Dorsey considers the three most important words to describe Twitter to be: public, real-time and simplicity. Not social. “We definitely see social as just one part of what people do on Twitter,” Dorsey said. “We think of it as an information utility and a communications network.”.

Twitter has now 500 million users worldwide and it is trying to improve its features and functionality. Twitter has launched new design for website and its application few days back. Recently when Google+ has launched personalized search, Twitter opposes the move taken by Google.