What makes you think that Google would have any interest in buying twitter?
You don't just get to choose who will buy you.
Re:Help Twitter Find a Revenue Model
by potatolicious on Wednesday October 15, 2008 @08:58PM
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Not to mention Google didn't buy any of the many webmail services out there, nor IM services... If anything Google is more likely to develop their own twitter.
Google bought Jaiku, one of Twitter's earlier competitors, about a year ago.
I'm not saying Google is going to necessarily buy Twitter, I'm just saying that is Twitter's best chance to exit.
I would be more likely to agree with you if they hadn't already bought jaiku.
To be fair, you did say exactly the words 'I predict Google will pick up Twitter'.
lol you caught me, I'll give it a 51% chance of happening.
In my opinion, Google is still a strong exit strategy for many years to come. Google has $7 B in cash, $29 B in assets and only $3 B in liabilities.
Of course I would never build a business with Google as an "exit" strategy, but I think that's the best option that Twitter has. Sure you can argue for the corporate spin, but I personally feel that is a weak play (like someone else said, there are a million other corporate collab startups out there already that can clone Twitter).
It makes even more sense since Evan Williams (founder of Odea, parent company of Twitter) sold his previous blogging company, Blogger, to Google.