>[...] Twitter is the acquisition target of two separate companies, possibly Google and Facebook.

What's Google going to do with Twitter? If you want to comment on a youtube-video you'll then have to tweet? But with your real name and with some added characters at the end of your twitter-handle, because the algorithm says so.

Facebook has Instagram, which is way way way more popular and relevant than twitter.

I don't quite get how anybody still thinks that twitter can grow the same way as other social networks do?

Twitter has found its niche users: somehow web developers, designers and indie game developers seem to love it.

But if you have to explain to non tech-savy people more than 5 minutes why they should use it, then it's clear that it's not for everyone.

Celebrities have moved to instagram and once you've lost a user it's very unlikely that they'll come back.

I'd say the rumors are made up. While in the headline there it's not mentioned in the article itself. Why would the stock go down if there were takeover rumors?

This is a good observation. All I can think of is that generally the impact of unconfirmed take over offers that might not happen is significantly less than missing earnings projections.

I imagine if anything ends up gaining steam you'll see people jump on board hoping for a premium on the stock purchase.