Word has it that Google and Twitter are in negotiations and Twitter is on the selling block. Why am I surprised. In today’s corporate ruled culture, money talks and “you know what” walks.
Whatever happened to independent minded businessmen and women who choose to be independent rather than part of a large conglomerate? Is Twitter just another “mom and pop” (albeit a very wealthy one) that is being swallowed up by a much larger fish, never to see the light of day again, but to be absorbed into the machine and never to be heard from again? Now I know that Twitter has its shares of troubles (I can’t count the number of times I’ve been unable to tweet) but still…
Industry gurus agree that Twitter’s search capabilities (light years beyond Google’s) are the golden egg in this fairy tale. Real time searching is the mode of the future and Twitter has a lock on that…for now.
I certainly hope if this deal goes through that Twitter doesn’t go all “big brother” on us and delay tweets between folks that might be deemed “hazardous.”
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