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Apple Looking to Acquire Twitter?

Im thinking twitter is going to see its long term success in that it being an RSS reader for 'everybody'. 90% of internet users dont know what the heck an RSS feed or reader is, but just about all of those people know that you can follow your favorite websites, and blogs, and news channels on twitter. which brings the news to them, in a very RSS way, but not through the confusing RSS MUMBO JUMBO.

once they get on twitter and use it for those activities, then they might make friends, and use it as twitter was originally set out to be. just how i see it
 
As I remember it, the 'bird' on the computer doesn't say 'twitt, twitt' - it said 'I quit, quit, quit'! :D

But I don't use twitter and never will. If Apple buys twitter through the means of their excessive premium prices I'll sell my Mac. I'll be too embarrassed to affiliate with anything Apple. :eek:
 
i have a twitter account, ive tried to use it in many ways, and i dub it garbage, good for wasting time if you have time to waste
 
Apple SHOULD buy Twitter if they can get them for under a billion. Twitter has some really good talent. Apple could use people well versed in making cool internet based projects. Not to mention, they could probably make Twitter into a full-fledged search engine with their funds.

It's the talent.

:apple:
 
celtikmind said:
I wouldn't consider 'a nack for gossip'ing' talent. I'm sorry, I just won't.
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I'm talking about the talent that created Twitter. The same guys that made Blogger. Apple could use their expertise, seeing that Apple has little in the "Internet" space.

:apple:
 
What value does Twitter have?

They have yet to turn a profit, and the majority of their "content"... well who are we kidding -- what useful information can you really fit into 140 characters?
 
yeah right:rolleyes:

the twitter founder said recently in an interview that the company is in the value generation phase and will experiment with revenue generation models in a year or so but they have very patient investors (he literally said that!).

translation: we burn tons of cash and have no idea how we ever make money but we screw our investors as long as possible.

apple has no use for twitter and twitter will fade away.

my 2 cents (equals worth of twitter)

p.s.: that is a economic evaluation of twitter. the service as such is a great idea and well done. just not profitable.
 
itsbarry said:
Apple SHOULD buy Twitter if they can get them for under a billion. Twitter has some really good talent. Apple could use people well versed in making cool internet based projects. Not to mention, they could probably make Twitter into a full-fledged search engine with their funds.

It's the talent.

:apple:
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So Apple pays a BILLION dollars to acquire Twitter talent which could be replicated for way way less than that? And then they are going to take on Google in the search arena? And how would Twitter's platform / skill set translate to a search engine? Disambiguation and/or conflation and/or statistical projection are not, that I am aware of, parts of Twitter's "assets".
 
well considering apple has $29 billion in cash reserves, they easily have the money to buy out twitter, ea, and multiple other companies if they wanted to. But the fact that they're holding on to that amount of cash means that they want to do SOMETHING with it, well see in the next year or so...
 
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