Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud
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Re: Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud
#2I think this could be an interesting move for Twitter. Especially for podcasting, since Twitter started out as Odeo, and pivoted due to lackluster interest in the medium.
Re: Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud
#3Interesting. I'd be assuming it's for making audio tweets, but even then it's kind of restricting. Putting voice in front of other people is something people might not still be ready for.
Re: Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud
#4i don't think it's podcasting anymore, but making the tweets really small like 1 minute or 50 seconds might be making people more interested in speaking infront of an audience, but if it's online music streaming they could choose rdio instead of soundcloud.
Re: Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud
#5Interesting. I'd be assuming it's for making audio tweets, but even then it's kind of restricting. Putting voice in front of other people is something people might not still be ready for.
With text/tweets, you can process the text and what it is about at a glance. With video, you have thumbnails and they usually give you a good idea what to expect from that video. With audio, there's nothing. I think people are not ready for that, because audio only is so hard to filter and "consume" without having to listen to it.
Re: Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud
#6Super interesting -- but Soundcloud won't come cheap (they raised at a $700mm valuation in January [1] and are doing really well).
[1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/25/soundcloud-raises-60-millio...
Re: Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud
#7i don't think it's podcasting anymore, but making the tweets really small like 1 minute or 50 seconds might be making people more interested in speaking infront of an audience, but if it's online music streaming they could choose rdio instead of soundcloud.
I don't think you can compare SoundCloud with Rdio. Two completely different services.
Re: Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud
#8According to Swedish media, refering to Financial Times, Twitter is in talks to acquire Spotify as well. Link that I can't visit: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7ad44fd2-ec08-11e3-ab1b-00144feabd...
Re: Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud
#9Please buy Soundcloud. They have a great product that hasn't made many improvements in the last couple years. Hopefully an acquisition by Twitter would give them the resources they need to thrive, without too much negative oversight. (Vine is an example of a very successful Twitter acquisition.)
Re: Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud
#10According to Swedish media, refering to Financial Times, Twitter is in talks to acquire Spotify as well. Link that I can't visit: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7ad44fd2-ec08-11e3-ab1b-00144feabd...
Twitter raised $2.1 billion in its IPO -- Spotify is valued north of $4 billion.