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Rumours abound on the internet as the Wall Street Journal has reported that internet giants Facebook and Google, have both held "low-level talks" with Twitter, over the possibility of acquiring the social networking/microblogging service. Twitter's valuation has grown enormously over the past few years and reportedly the current 'RRP' is somewhere between $8bn and $10bn! It's not particularly surprising then, that two of the largest Internet superpowers are eyeing it up like a randy panda looking at a nice, long, hard, bamboo plant. Especially when you consider what has happened to social networking sites like Bebo and MySpace, it's understandable that Facebook want to have another bird in it's hand for when the next 'big thing' appears. And Google? Well Google's just keeping to it's mission statement: World Domination.
I never got into Twitter myself, though I have several friends who tweet religiously, anything I have to say is much too deep and philosophically ambiguous to be expressed in 140 characters or less. But bloody hell, I wish I'd known about it 5 years ago so I could have bought a couple of shares and capitalised on one of the most simple and popular forms of media on the web. Whether it will stay as such we will only find out with time.
Here is a link to the original article on the WSJ.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703716904576134543029279426.html
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