Twitter for Sale, Google for Buy?

Friday, October 16. 2009

Twitter for Sale, Google for Buy?

It is a near-truism that any time a company owner says "Company X is not for sale", then within a fairly short period of time it gets sold. What, then, do we make of Twitter?:

....on Thursday Twitter's Biz Stone sought to put an end to the persistent talk that he wants to sell the company.

"Twitter is not interested in being acquired by a bigger company, we want to build an impressive company on our own and we believe that we can," Stone said to an audience of Twitter users at an event in Tokyo on Thursday evening.

This on the same day that Google announced its third quarter results, its $22bn in the bank and its desire to "buy something big every year or so"

Pure, idle, irresponsible speculation, mind you

But it would plug a real time search hole - and it just emulates the Cisco strategy after all (if you can't beat it, buy it)....

Posted by Alan Patrick in Digital Media Web 2.0 at 07:38 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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It will be interesting to see. Or is Google taking an oblique approach and going after the (potentially more valuable) real-time business interactions, with Wave.

Btw that wasn't quite the business strategy. The question is does it become more valuable post-aquisition, and that is a tricky one as Twitter becomes more and more successful. Once the (early adopter) growth tails off, the value potentially collapses. That smells like the good time to buy.

#1 Benjamin Ellis (Homepage) on 2009-10-16 08:09 (Reply)

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