Twitter University invades online learning with new engineering training tool - Lauren Hepler, Biz Journals

Twitter announced on Tuesday that it is launching Twitter University, an engineering education platform, after acquiring open source training company Marakana. A Twitter blog post by Senior Vice President of Engineering Chris Fry announced that the social media company has acquired open-source training company Marakana to launch a technical training tool called Twitter University. "To help our engineers grow, it’s important for them to have access to world-class technical training, along with opportunities to teach the skills they’ve mastered," Fry wrote. The new program will be for Twitter employees, but Fry said the company wants to release some of the Twitter University content online for anyone to use. http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/08/13/twitter-university-launches-coding.html