mikehudack:

tedr:

caterpillarcowboy:

courtenaybird:

But there’s another reason Google won’t buy Twitter, and it’s this: Google is learning to be patient. Twitter is a big deal, but if you accept it as part of an emerging landscape, there’s no reason you need to own it. Given Twitter’s natural competitive positioning against Facebook, Google can partner with the emerging service in ways that provide both companies advantage against a shared enemy. (via John Battelle’s Searchblog)

All of this google buying twitter talk is silly. Why should google take on the risk / cost? Unlike video with YouTube, twitter’s data is all public, so it’s easy for google to crawl, index, and process.

If I were Google and for some reason wanted to buy Twitter, I’d at least wait for them to burn through a bunch of cash and get more desperate. Twitter is more utility than business.

Google will put in $5b - $10b offer for Twitter in the next 15 days.

Seriously? Five to ten billion? What have you been smoking? Can I have some?

I’m w/ @mikehudack on this one. @tedr why do you think $goog is so desperate they would make such a bid?

Honestly given the obvious anti-trust review to any acquisition I don’t see google making a bid nor twitter potentially accepting one given the 12 to 18 mo approval process.