According to a statement made today by Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone, the company is interested in acquiring more companies to expand upon their current core set of features. At a news conference held in Tel Aviv, Stone was quoted as saying that acquisitions are “something we are definitely interested in. We made an acquisition last year that turned out to be an outstandingly good decision.” The acquisition he’s referring to is Twitter’s purchase of Summize, a real-time search engine that has now become search.twitter.com. Since that original purchase in summer of 2008, Twitter has made no other moves or indications that they were interested in buying other companies, seemingly more focused on quashing bugs, acquiring funding, and partnering with major search engines like Bing and Google. Meanwhile, the ecosystem of Twitter applications exploded, and now includes hundreds if not thousands of apps powered by or integrated with Twitter’s service. But which of these apps deserve to bec…[...]

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What Apps Should Twitter Acquire?