Google buys Twitter

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_16930409

Google will buy Twitter. Except for search, Google has become the house that acquisitions built. When it comes to money, the company has enough to buy a continent or two. And when it comes to social, its in-house attempts to create a social-networking service have fallen flat. Time to buy its way in. So far, the company has been ditched by Yelp (reportedly) and Groupon (supposedly). Twitter's latest valuation puts it at about half what Google wanted to pay for Groupon. Google should pony up the cash and buy the mother of all unsustainable businesses: Twitter. And Twitter should say yes because, despite its protestations to the contrary, there is no business model there. But Google will figure out a way to make money off Twitter's huge user base.

This is just somebody's predictions. Not actual news. What do you think though? Would Twitter be better off if google bought them?

 

[Durandal]

It would help with the competition with Facebook, but that's a hard buy I think given the brand strength on it's own. I think that's why Facebook is avoiding an IPO - to avoid a hostile takeover by Google, or to outpace them in price to win a war of attrition.