Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
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Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#2Stock is through the roof right now. About +19%
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#3Unclear is what kind of "deal" they are talking about.
A considerable buy in? A full acquisition?
And, assuming a full acquisition... what would be the gain?
Google has a bad story with attempts at social media, apart from YouTube. (Bought Orkut, killed it, tried Google Plus, went nowhere). Twitter is hard to make profitable without alienating the users with too many ads.
For Google, it would probably be an acquisition like YouTube. With the knowledge that it might never be profitable, but intended to get control over a significant asset. But sharing Google infrastructure and resources could probably bring down operating costs in the medium term.
We'll see.
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#4I wouldn't blame Jack one bit for wanting to get back to Square full-time (not that it's necessarily fully his decision to sell).
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#5I really can't see salesforce buying twitter. I think a social media giant would gain something from twitter, but not much else.
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#6Twitter should be a public utility.
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#7Unclear is what kind of "deal" they are talking about. A considerable buy in? A full acquisition? And, assuming a full acquisition... what would be the gain? Google has a bad story with attempts at social media, apart from YouTube. (Bought Orkut, killed it, tried Google Plus, went nowhere). Twitter is hard to make profitable without alienating the users with too many ads. For Google, it would probably be an acquisiti…
If it's Google then cue endless jokes about shutting it down.
I'm not saying they don't have some issues with their corporate attention span but I do get sick of that one being wheeled out without any real insight or cause.
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#8Unclear is what kind of "deal" they are talking about. A considerable buy in? A full acquisition? And, assuming a full acquisition... what would be the gain? Google has a bad story with attempts at social media, apart from YouTube. (Bought Orkut, killed it, tried Google Plus, went nowhere). Twitter is hard to make profitable without alienating the users with too many ads. For Google, it would probably be an acquisiti…
If it's Google then cue endless jokes about shutting it down. I'm not saying they don't have some issues with their corporate attention span but I do get sick of that one being wheeled out without any real insight or cause.
> If it's Google then cue endless jokes about shutting it down.
Haha. That'd be the world's funniest acquihire.
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#9I really can't see salesforce buying twitter. I think a social media giant would gain something from twitter, but not much else.
I think it would be stupid too but the article does contain an executive being fairly direct about wanting it and why.
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#10Twitter should be a public utility.
It is a public utility.