What do you think about Google trying to buy Twitter?
I’ve read a lot of news reports over the last few days about Google trying to acquire Twitter. Originally it was thought that they were very close to signing a deal but Michael Arrington reported yesterday that Twitter wouldn’t even sell for $1 Billion.
The deal is definately not off though and Google and Twitter remain in discussions about some kind of deal. I wouldn’t be surprised if Google paid whatever Twitter is asking for as they see Twitter as a long term investment, much like YouTube was.
Brian Combs did a survey and found that bloggers were mostly positive on the Google-Twitter merger.
Brian admitted himself that this wasn’t a very scientific survey as he simply searched through about 50 posts and comments from readers who gave an opinion on the sucject. Nevertheless he found that most bloggers were encouraged by the recent news of Google purchasing Twitter.
- Strongly Positive (28.30%)
- Slightly Positive (32.08%)
- Neutral (15.09%)
- Slightly Negative (18.87%)
- Strong Negative (5.66%)
I would probably consider myself neutral over this acquisition. I know Google already have a monopoly over many aspects of the internet but if they managed to make Twitter a better service then I’d be all for it. However, I’m a bit skeptical if they can do this as FeedBurner has been terrible ever since they took them over.
What do you think : Would Google buying Twitter be a good thing?
Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes ClubPosted on April 4th, 2009 and filed under Social Media
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Seeing the now “terrible” FeedBurner, and Google’s “well managed(!), good(!)” responses, I’m with 5.66% of Strongly Negative people. Twitter is better as it is.(Just like Feedburner was without feedproxy and feeds2 issue and recent subscriber count issue!)
I don’t like the idea of Google purchasing Twitter. I’d much rather see Biz Stone make Twitter an independent success such as he said on his Steven Colbert interview. Google has quite a background in purchasing companies/services only to let them die. While the odds of that happening to Twitter if they were to purchase them are low, I still see it as a big risk. Just take Jaiku for example. That was an expanded version of Twitter which they did nothing with. There are other examples but I really hope Google plans on doing something with the service if they buy it or I will be extremely P.O.!
Is Google trying to make a monopoly on the internet? I think buying twitter is a very bad idea, just like they’ve done with Feedburner. Although I’m a fan of google services, I don’t support their idea of buying almost all of the popular services on the net.
Perhaps somebody needs to tell the Big G that not everything can be bought with money!
Google are always thinking about the future and they see Twitters success growing and growing. I think even Google has been surprised about their growth in the last few months as when Twitter were looking for funding a year or so ago Google were not involved.
Shouldn’t Google figure out how to make money with YouTube before even thinking about purchasing Twitter?
Lately no startup can become successful without everyone suddenly lumping the expectation of a Google buy-out on them. That must be incredibly frustrating and stressful at times.
What happened to just building something and being in it for the long haul? Not just building hype and cashing out? When did a Google buy-out become the ultimate benchmark for web entrepreneurs?
I am very much against Google purchasing Twitter. I believe Google has far too much power over the internet and how users navigate it. They are the “boss” of website owners, who do everything they can to make their personal websites “google friendly.” Instead of simply having to focus on excellent writing and easy navigation, they have to decide on what google’s “flavor of the day” is in SEO. How many people in the world say, “Google it” instead of “Search it?” Ahhh, and remember google’s little “mistake” recently in which they warned internet users of the many “dangerous” websites out there? Traffic was way down that morning for so many. And b/c of that, their INCOME was down.
So if you haven’t guessed, I believe google should back off and use that money to put back into adsense or coding or SOMETHING. What is next, Facebook? Myspace? Wiki?