Apr 18, 2019 11:01:00

Acquisition of highlight sharing app that allows Twitter to draw highlighter on text, highlight share function may be added

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Many people have drawn markers or highlighters to highlight important parts such as newspapers and textbooks, and sentences that they want to remember. The founder of ' Highly ', an application that can highlight and share text on the web, has announced that it will participate in the development of Twitter, and Twitter has acknowledged that it has acquired Highly.

Sparking the Public Conversation – Happy Highlighting – Medium
https://medium.com/highlight-to-share/sparking-the-public-conversation-c5fd78d9bfb3

Twitter acqui-hires highlight-sharing app Highly | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/17/twitter-highly/

Highly is an application that allows you to highlight and share text on the web as well as printed characters, and was published on iOS , Slack, etc.

Its founder, Andrew Carter, announced on its blog, 'Join Twitter'. In response to this, the technical media TechCrunch interviewed Twitter, and Twitter also admitted that it has officially acquired Highly.

Highly can be downloaded as of April 18, 2019, but will be released on April 26, 2019. However, services such as free 'Highly for Teams' and paid 'Crowd Control' will continue. Although it is unclear as to whether High's highlight sharing feature will be added to Twitter, Carter said, “The soundness of sharing Twitter is by sharing a summary, not headlines or loose links that tend to walk alone. I intend to make it live as a forum for speech, 'he said in his blog.