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Apple Looking to Acquire Twitter?

with all the statistics saying that most twitter users top after 30 days... i dont see why Apple would want them.. they haven't really found their niche or a real revenue stream.
 
melchior said:
god forbid it should be somehow tied into the useless monstrosity that is mobileme
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Suddenly I'm not so skeptical. Apple is great at doing mediocre web services that a vast majority of people have no use nor imaginable desire for. Twitter would fit right in.

Twitter and SMS both need to die. Their arbitrary and absurdly short length limits are causing serious injury to the English language.
 
Spades said:
Twitter and SMS both need to die. Their arbitrary and absurdly short length limits are causing serious injury to the English language.
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Clearly you don't understand how SMS works. The data is carried in the excess bandwidth found in the signaling space used to track which phones are on what part of the network. From a technical aspect it is basically free. It uses up no bandwidth that would otherwise be free, it uses up practically 0 resources, it's actually rather brilliant.

What needs to die is the pricing structure the phone carriers have built up around SMS. It should simply be included with every account for no cost.
 
melchior said:
how and why? what resources does twitter have that apple wants? god forbid it should be somehow tied into the useless monstrosity that is mobileme. maybe however, they want jack dorsey to fix mobileme? or at least make it useful. buying him out for $700million is one way to do that...

but really, this, just like the ea business is bunk because it has nothing to do with apple. twitter already acknowledges it has no revenue stream and ea is not about to start producing all it's titles natively in opengl.
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Just remember, if you're like me, a loyal fan and customer to Apple, then you'd know that everywhere Apple lays it hands on, something amazing happens. Why waste time bashing this? Instead, try to imagine the possibilities of what Apple might do with these two companies. If you can't think of anything, then wait it out. Buying EA would be interesting, buying Twitter just made me curious.

Me, I'm excited to see what Apple might come up with in the following months.

MobileMe is useless to he who doesn't know how to use it.
 
mrgreen4242 said:
Well, just sort of brainstorming here, but I could see some sort of hook into an platform of mobile phones for Twitter. Building it into an OS level API so all apps could access it and receive push notifications through the service could have some potential for integrating app usage and social networking. Auto tweet for high scores in games, status updates for what you're listening too or watching, location awareness, etc. And in reverse, apps seeing a tweet in your friends streams for high scores to notify you of them, or let you know someone else has the song song(s) on their top played list at the same time, or whatever.
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That would get annoying with all the notifications... I think most people would turn it off...

Spades said:
A single SMS message is limited to 160 characters, isn't it?
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I've always wondered this and never actually found out
 
Let's face it, Apple has no reason to buy Twitter, as Twitter is absolutely useless.
Maybe it's my age, but I cannot understand why people find the need to share every last little trifling thought on their minds. Since when have we become a society totally bent self-validation?
At the end of the day, there are things in life that don't need to be shared.

"I'm having a great dinner at Chili's!" Who cares?

"I thinking this or that!" Again, who cares?

Look, not everyone is important, and we are just going to have to face the fact that our ordinary lives, no matter how hard we try, will never seem more than that. Ordinary.

Get a life, Tweeters!

Rant over.
 
More Interesting...

Didn't read all the posts on this forum yet about this but oh well Im going to say it.

Google already tried to buy Twitter but Twitter turned them down, not sure if anyone knew that yet, or if its old news etc, just putting it out there. :rolleyes:
 
Why is EA so ludicrous for Apple to buy?

Just wanted to throw this out there as I am unconvinced either way Apple has made a history of entering software markets for it's own platforms where they can gain significant market share. With EA being a great histrocial game developer (with many classics I would like to see redeveloped for the iPhone) would it not make some sort of sense for Apple to have a game developer in their camp, especially with OSX itself looking to sell itself as a more viable game platform to the PC crowd. Your thoughts please.....
 
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Spades said:
A single SMS message is limited to 160 characters, isn't it?
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From the Wikipedia entry:

Depending on which alphabet the subscriber has configured in the handset, this leads to the maximum individual Short Message sizes of 160 7-bit characters, 140 8-bit characters, or 70 16-bit characters (including spaces)​

I guess some other countries use 8-bit = 140 characters? Still no really good reason why Twitter uses 140 chars.
 
lazyrighteye said:
No. Way.
Nope.
Huh uh.
Not happening.
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+1. It will never happen.

The closest Apple ordinarily gets to the great unwashed public commentariat is in permitting reviews of iTunes Store offerings, which are reviewed and are sometimes removed if enough people complain about the same outrageously offensive post.

If you think Apple will risk owning the second-hand smoke of whatever the sum of all twitterings offers the planet on the average Tuesday morning, think again.
 
yellow said:
This is the crux of it.

Why would a profitable company (Apple) spend money to acquire a company that has no revenue stream, no possibility of revenue stream, and apparently looses 70% of it's newly signed up members within a month?

Sounds more like a Microsoftian move to me. ;)
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No, it sounds like a Google move. The kings of buying crap that goes no where.
 
I would expect this to happen... but who knows.

I think apple keeps its current business plan very simple and effective (well not really simple, but).

Apple doesnt do what alot of companies do and it does great.
 
TripleF said:
I guess some other countries use 8-bit = 140 characters? Still no really good reason why Twitter uses 140 chars.
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at the inception of twitter, it was a tool to use from your cell phone by tweeting via text messages, and it is still widely used in that manner, hence the limit.
 
TripleF said:
From the Wikipedia entry:

Depending on which alphabet the subscriber has configured in the handset, this leads to the maximum individual Short Message sizes of 160 7-bit characters, 140 8-bit characters, or 70 16-bit characters (including spaces)​

I guess some other countries use 8-bit = 140 characters? Still no really good reason why Twitter uses 140 chars.
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It is a good reason. That's why it's called microblogging. You only have 160 characters per text message, and if people are receiving your updates then twitter needs those extra 20 characters for formatting, like adding your user name and other info.

Many people still use Twitter exclusively on their phones.
 
Man, I hope Twitter goes away. I hate it. Apple owning it would be hard to cope with... I think Twitter is the worst thing to happen to computers since Windows ME.
 
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