Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

Eurekster, a social search engine provider founded in late 2003, has been down for the last couple of days. The user base of Eurekster is now wondering if they could avail the services soon.

Christchurch, New Zealand based company which started its personalized search in January 2004, hosts around 100,000 Swickis. Swicki is a service of Eurekster which lets the site owners highlight other sites to be added to Swicki search results. ReadWriteWeb has availed Swicki services for a while as does other online communities and blogs. Swicki has also joined Eurekster in the list of unavailable online services.

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Flock, a social web browser released 3 years ago, has generated a lot of  hype since its release. It has succeeded in capturing alot of users. This has played a vital role in raising the fourth round of funding worth $15 million.

The lead investor of this round was Fidelity Ventures. Previous investors Bessemer Venture Partners, Catamount Ventures and Shasta Ventures also participated in the round.

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According to GigaOm, Twitter has closed its second round of funding in which it raised around $15 million.

Twitter, a San Francisco based startup which was started by Ev Williams (founder of Odeo and Blogger) is in news for quite some time regarding their investment deal. Although it has been reported earlier that the company has raised around $15million to $20million  at a valuation north of $70 million. But then all this chatter proved out to be plain hype.

A new investor is participating in this round along with the current ones,  is one of them.

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