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According to its blog, startup Bagcheck has been acquired by Twitter. The company notes: We’re very excited to announce that Bagcheck has been acquired byTwitter, and as of today,Sam Pullarawill be joining the Twitter engineering team. Bagcheck started out of a passion for connecting people to their interests, allowing people to have a place to discover and share the “bags” of items they are most passionate about, whether it’s a collection ofphotography gearor an arsenal ofcooking tools....

Twitter has just acquired Julpan, a startup that has been oriented toward not only watching what people shared, but also how they shared that information. We see today, viaa message on the Julpan site, that Twitter has acquired the New York-based startup. I am very proud to announce that Julpan has been acquired by Twitter. We founded Julpan more than a year ago. In that time we’ve created innovative, early-alpha-stage search technology that analyzes social activity across the Web to deliver fresh and relevant content to users....

In a post to theBackType blogthis morning, it appears that Twitter has acquired BackType, the company which holds its claim to fame as a comments search tool. In more recent times, BackType has shifted its business to become “a marketing intelligence platform that helps brands and agencies understand the business impact of social media.” Our vision at BackType has always been to help our customers understand the value of engagement on Twitter and other social platforms....

Twittertoday addedanother 70 locationsto Local Trends, a subset of the service’s trend tracking service that gives users a view of what’s popular in their area at the time. Twitter doesn’t provide a list of the new locations, but you can go and find out if yours is one of them by clicking ‘change’ next to the word Worldwide in the Trends section of your Twitter sidebar, as seen below.I assume that Twitter waited all this time to add to the previously meager 30 locations because it has a criteria for region-specific activity before it’s willing to have people replace Worldwide trends....

Twitter has added a ‘Post Tweets to Facebook’ button in the user profiles section that will allow you to quickly and easily link your Twitter account to your Facebook account. The button, when clicked, will ask you to enter your Facebook credentials and then link the two accounts, allowing your Tweets to cross-post to Facebook as status updates. Once you’ve linked the two accounts, you’ll see the space change to reflect that....