According to reports this morning, Twitter may be looking to sell itself off before year’s end. Possible buyers have already been named, with three large companies reportedly leading the pack of potential suitors. The first two companies are Google and Salesforce, with a separate report claiming Verizon is even in the mix to acquire Twitter.
In terms of why Twitter would be a good buy, I can think of a few. With over 300 million active users, Twitter generates a ton of data that these companies could use for any sort of implementation. On top of the social aspect, Twitter is a fantastic place to see news in realtime, as well as sports and entertainment happenings. If there is a subject you are fond of, you can bet there’s someone tweeting about it.
As for how much Twitter might be worth, the latest figure we have seen is somewhere around $18 billion. That’s quite the chunk of change, but could be a nice investment once and if Twitter begins to make money the way Wall Street hopes it will.
At this time, whether a deal will actually take place is uncertain. It’s possible that nothing will come of these reports, but Twitter’s stock has jumped since they first hit the wire.
If a company were to buy Twitter, who would you root for?
Good would be the best fit to integrate it with the search engine.
Microsoft
Why does twitter even exist? I still dont see what niche it fills or what value it provides. Just let it die already.
Just not Verizon
I have twtr stocks so the more buyers the merrier this xmas will be for me. I don’t care who buys it since I don’t even use it. Though to me it seems to make more sense for an entertainment company to buy them than a technical company. You mainly hear about twitter because someone well known or notorious tweets something or they are streaming some event. Beyond that its not really ground breaking. So I think Disney, the NFL, ESPN, warner bros and every other movie studio and sporting franchise should throw a bid in there. lol.
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As long as it’s not facebook.
So will we get “Twitter Heroes” if Google buys it?
I say no on. , let twitter die its slow death
Why would it die any death? Is a great service that keeps getting better.
The company barely makes a profit. I think Twitter themselves made up this rumor, so that they could increase their stock prices and also the fact for years they have been losing way more subscribers. Than they have had people joining.
It’s a great company for people who need a safe space, for social justice wussies who can’t stand to hear the truth and for those who hate the first amendment, the second amendment, actually the entire constitution. Oh and let’s not forget those who hate Christianity and those who don’t believe Islamic terrorism exists. They will die, the share holders will be left with nothing.
Google+/twitter merge. Soon Google will have so much data from us that they will be able to create virtual clones of us that speak and think just like us.
Google appetite for user data is something fierce, I bet they are drooling over the fact they could get the drop on even more people, to strengthen their ads platform. Can’t tell how many times my phone has been listening to my casual conversations and pushing ads to me relevant to the topics Ive been discussing. Scary.
Twitter already have the best search in the game and google have really bad ideas about social. I hope they don’t sell
NONE of those companies are any good, especially Google. Twitter has been getting worse, either of those companies would probably completely ruin it.
Google buys twitter and introduces Twitter messenger! Download a separate app and message all your twitter followers/profiles you follow.
That makes no sense.
That’s Google’s mission statement.
I can see it now…Twitter S,M,L,XL plans if Verizon gets it.
S: 40 Characters
M: 80 Characters
L: 140 Characters
XL: 200 Characters
“We’re not going to offer unlimited length tweets, who would ever want that?”
It could be the “T” in the Alphabet.
Please just not Verizon.
Google would make a new app called ‘Gwitter.’ When you tweeted it would ask all your followers to install the new app. But the tweet would come from a random user and look a lot like a spam tweet.
Gwitter.
Cmon Google, drop them B’s on it and add it to the port folio. Twitter has potential. Google has the infrastructure and verticals to monetize it better. Verizon would destroy it, they are busy conjuring up 1990’s platforms anyways.
Now Google could have social media platform to take over for Google Buzz.
And Google+ for that matter…
Verizon buying it might be a red flag to the FCC. Especially if they made it not count against your data. So that is probably never going to be approved. Google seems more likely. I would like to see it be less anonymous.
Less anonymous? The anonymity makes it a huge plus over the other networks. I don’t need my employer reading my political views.
Verizon is the internet collector of junk:
AOL, Yahoo, etc
Lol
It’s the userbase that companies value and clamor over, not the actual technologies. People who use AOL are luddites and faithful users.
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Hahahah. Exactly.
if they do this, they’ll own the only 2 remaining real-time social networks and that could be a bit scary.
Salesforce and Verizon get a gas face
Salesforce or Verizon? iew
Google fine, Verizon hell no!
As a daily Salesforce user, it would benefit them the most. They use “chatter” which is very very similar to Twitter and it could make their enterprise offerings that much more enticing.
Google most definitely
The Google
Marry, ****, kill.
Kill Salesforce because they can’t turn a profit.
Marry Google so I can maybe make some changes.
No other option but to stick it to Verizon for all the times they did it to me!
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Google would create a crappy app for it, then forget it and move on. Verizon would just destroy it.
If they leave it to run itself similar to YouTube, then it wouldn’t be terrible
And Waze.
And Google Health.
Good point, but I could see them trying to mix it in with Google +.
That would be sweet!
Are you kidding? Have you seen all the BS they’ve added and removed to YouTube over the years? All of the backwards policy changes and content censoring sweeps of abuse and redesigns that make no sense?
YouTube is a serious mess right now.
YouTube is light years ahead of what it was before Google. Remember, back then the videos were all 240p
You say that as if technology wouldn’t have improved without Google. Who knows, the service could be even better today without Google.
Google would create an iOS app for it first. lol
They’ll change the icon to red and rename it VZ-Twitts and make it bloatware on all DROID branded phones.
Google, hands down….if Verizon gets it, that’s the end of twitter…calling it now
I hope Verizon does acquire it then 🙂
It’s then end for them anyway. That’s what they get for censoring people. F**K Twitter and the puke who runs it.