Start-ups flock to Twitter, looking to capitalize on network’s growth - The Boston Globe

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In our neighborhood, more than half a dozen companies offer applications and services connected to Twitter - and some of them, unlike Twitter itself, are already starting to bring in actual money from customers. (What an old-school notion!) Call them Twitter remoras - companies attached to Twitter like remora fish attached to a shark.

Start-ups flock to Twitter, looking to capitalize on network’s growth - The Boston Globe