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Twitter may try to buy its way out of its growth problem by making another move into music.
The company is considering a deal to acquire SoundCloud, the music and audio-sharing company, according to people familiar with both companies.
Berlin-based SoundCloud is a free service that lets users upload and share audio files around the Web; it likes to describe itself as the “YouTube for audio.” In October 2013, the company announced that it had 250 million users.