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Twitter acquires open source educator Marakana for internal university

Twitter is in the process of building its own engineering education program, dubbed Twitter University.

To move things along quickly, the microblogging giant announced that it has acquires Marakana, a private company that provides open source tech training.

Specifically, Marakana has taught courses about Android, Java, HTML5, Scala, Python, Hadoop, and jQuery, among other languages and platforms.

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