It doesn't matter it would still not cover my losses in the stock. Talk about crappy decisions.
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
#22I 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 makes a bit of sense. For a lot of companies Twitter is already a major point of customer interaction and retention. Maybe Salesforce feels like they could monetize that aspect of Twitter, with the advantage that a ton of consumers are already there and using it.
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#23Google acquiring Twitter is actually the best end result here. Salesforce is probably the worst. Lots of people hate the idea of a Google acquisition, but I think it's well suited because:
- Google learnt from its mistakes with Google+ and is eager to not repeat them
- The company is a very different one now from years ago
- Google doesn't want to mess up identity again, so that wouldn't be an issue
- Google mostly just wants a social graph
- Twitter is a bad public company that makes irrational decisions
- Merging Google engineering/leadership with Twitter might actually give direction and ease the financial pressure that seems to drive the company's poor engineering decisions
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#24Twitter should be a public utility.
That would be nice but who would pay for servers? I would love an "Open Twitter" built on standard protocols and implementable by anyone, however if SMTP and NNTP are any indication, most people prefer convenient silos over open solutions. And the reality of a hostile internet mean that there is a need for active resources devoted to protecting any service from abuse.
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#25Unclear 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…
How is a company which "might never be profitable" considered a "significant asset"?!
I assume it's because another company is in a position to capitalize on it in ways Twitter alone could not.
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#26Unclear 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…
How is a company which "might never be profitable" considered a "significant asset"?!
As a social network, this is probably valuable to Google's Ad business - gives more dimensions to a Google user if you link your Twitter account with Google account...just guessing ATM.
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#27I really can't see salesforce buying twitter. I think a social media giant would gain something from twitter, but not much else.
It could enhance and supersede Salesforce's already existing Chatter product (an internal social newsfeed).
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#28Unclear 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…
How is a company which "might never be profitable" considered a "significant asset"?!
There's a lot of signal to be had in Twitter, signal which can be (and has been) turned into revenue not directly gained from it's users or advertisers.
Remember the story about Dataminr and its Government contracts?
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#29Unclear 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…
> Bought Orkut, killed it, tried Google Plus, went nowhere
Add Jaiku.com
Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google
#30Twitter should be a public utility.
That would be nice but who would pay for servers? I would love an "Open Twitter" built on standard protocols and implementable by anyone, however if SMTP and NNTP are any indication, most people prefer convenient silos over open solutions. And the reality of a hostile internet mean that there is a need for active resources devoted to protecting any service from abuse.
> most people prefer convenient silos over open solutions.
Most people don't care one way or the other. They just want it to do what they want/need.