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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by siculars on Friday October 14, 2016 @02:03PM (#12709933)
This. I have no doubt one of the aforementioned suitors, or some other, will conveniently step forward and strike a deal with Twitter in the $20-30 per share range.
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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by mholmes680 on Friday October 14, 2016 @02:09PM (#12709987)
I think you're right, but $20 - $30 is waaay too big an estimate here. I think its more like $20-24.

...maybe a foreign company at this point...

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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by jowiar on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:11PM (#12710740)
How do you justify that price, though? It involves a whole lot of growth that isn't really there. Google and FB are probably the only companies that could turn Twitter profitable, but probably only at a point that justifies a sale price of around $15.
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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by harryh on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:25PM (#12710818)
A lot of people think that twitter could relatively easily be made profitable by significantly cutting engineering staff.

http://brontecapital.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/some-comment-on-...

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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by duaneb on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:33PM (#12710889)
Yea, people miss the fail whale.
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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by harryh on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:57PM (#12711047)
The vast majority of current twitter engineers have nothing to do with keeping fail whales at bay.
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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by duaneb on Friday October 14, 2016 @05:21PM (#12711171)
Isn't that the whole point of hiring engineers? To keep your service running? It's not going to maintain itself.
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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by harryh on Friday October 14, 2016 @05:59PM (#12711433)
Isn't that the whole point of hiring engineers?

No. If all twitter cared about was keeping the existing service running they could do it with 1/10th the current technical staff.

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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by the_watcher on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:54PM (#12711026)
Pretty sure that Google or Facebook could handle the scale Twitter operates at without the same headcount.
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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by duaneb on Friday October 14, 2016 @05:22PM (#12711180)
If I had google behind me, I could also leverage ridiculous technology. Both are larger than I am (and twitter is), so this is not surprising.
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Re:Twitter shares drop as Salesforce reported to be out of t... by harryh on Friday October 14, 2016 @04:21PM (#12710790)
I will bet you $500 that this doesn't happen within the next 90 days.
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