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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

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Post by icebraining »

wlesieutre wrote: post #15
the_duke wrote: post #3

Unclear 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 > Don't forget Buzz! That time when they default opted-in Gmail users into publishing a list of frequently contacted users on their google profile. Auto-follow was a terrible terrible idea.

Orkut wasn't bought, it was created by an employee as a 20%-time project.

Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google

#102

Post by hood_syntax »

asendra wrote: post #81
hornbaker wrote: post #13

My bet is GOOG. They need a streaming newsfeed product in which to insert ads.

Also, better youtube commenting system?

> better youtube

Two words that probably won't be said about any feature Google creates. They seemed determined to kill the platform.

Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google

#103

Post by sfifs »

dominotw wrote: post #97
imagist wrote: post #85

IMO, Twitter is the poster child for the tech bubble. They have users, which is their only claim to viability, but notably, they have never made a profit. Currently valued at around $10 billion with 350 million active users, that's about $29 per user. You'd be hard-pressed to find an investor so foolish that they would invest $29 in each of their users and hope to make it back if it were stated in those terms, but pe…

> If you find yourself thinking that Twitter is a company with any real value What about non-monetary value like playing a key role in 'Arab Spring'[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_and_the_Arab_Spri...

Sure, then they should be a non profit and be funded as such.

Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google

#104

Post by intsunny »

0x37 wrote: post #87
hornbaker wrote: post #13

My bet is GOOG. They need a streaming newsfeed product in which to insert ads.

What is this inane trend here on HN of referring to companies with the names they are registered to stock exhange?

For many of us its sheer laziness and its been this way for a long time. GOOG is faster to type than Google. (This is especially true for MSFT.)

Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google

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Post by mzw_mzw »

the_duke wrote: post #3

Unclear 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 Google buys Twitter and then kills it, we should mint them a freaking medal for services to humanity.

Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google

#107

Post by SixSigma »

joobus wrote: post #16
the_duke wrote: post #3

Unclear 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"?!

Controlling the narrative.

See who has been banned from Twitter. It's not BLM people celebrating cop murders, it's people posting too many #StopEnslavingSaudiWomen tweets.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/09/21/twitter-suspends-wo...

Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google

#108

Post by trentmb »

aresant wrote: post #88

Salesforce feels like a bizarre choice, although I agree with their digital chief that "I love Twitter" personally. I use twitter every day as my primary method of content discovery. So at their core the BUSINESS should revolve around monetizing my eyeballs, eg advertising. So to me it's Facebook or Google that should grab it, w/FB at the lead considering their relatively smooth / unhurried / and successful takeovers…

Perhaps there's some back end tech, talent that would be useful for tackling Salesforces problems.

Re: Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include Salesforce and Google

#109

Post by protomyth »

__abc wrote: post #92
alex_hitchins wrote: post #70

Might sound strange, but I think this would be a great purchase for Apple. They have the cash, they certainly have the engineers and UI skills it desperately needs. iMessage working brilliantly, but closer integration with a Twitter style feed makes real sense to me.

Actually, with the new iMessages app platform I wish all my Twitter conversations moved to iMessages. If Apple buys Twitter, that would be personally awesome.

I can only imagine what Apple will do with censorship given their app guidelines and general attitude towards editing their own user forums. Ping wasn't such a hit either.
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