Google 'looking at buying Twitter'

[froggyboy604]

More than $1.5bn (£1bn) was added to the value of Twitter on Tuesday following reports Google could launch a bid for the social network.
 
Shares in Twitter jumped 4.8pc on reports the US company had hired Goldman Sachs as an adviser to fend off approaches.
 
Two companies are believed to have contacted Twitter with “serious” interest, according to Briefing.com, with Google identified as one of those firms.
Twitter, which allows its users to post short messages online, has a market capitalisation of more than $34bn. Despite being less than 10 years old, the company has 288m monthly active users.
 
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I never knew Google wanted Twitter.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

never knew twitter was for sale. If google buys it though, that is going to change things.

 

[lb]

never knew twitter was for sale. If google buys it though, that is going to change things.

I don't particularly care about Twitter, cause I rarely use it and I find it pretty useless, but I hope that Google won't drive it into the ground like they did with YouTube.

 

[froggyboy604]

I don't particularly care about Twitter, cause I rarely use it and I find it pretty useless, but I hope that Google won't drive it into the ground like they did with YouTube.

I think Twitter has it use as a social network to make short announcements like "Read my latest article on my website" or "watch my newest video on YouTube" where using Facebook, Google Plus, Medium, and Tumblr is not as good because the newsfeed gets filled with many long text posts, big pictures, and embedded videos from YouTube.

 

[Cierra]

I hope Google doesn't buy Twitter, if so, I will deactivate/delete my account there for sure.

 

[lb]

I hope Google doesn't buy Twitter, if so, I will deactivate/delete my account there for sure.

Why? Don't you already use sites like YouTube and Google+? What could Google do to Twitter that would make you decide to delete your account? :ermm:

 

[froggyboy604]

I think Google buying Twitter could bring in a certain crowd of members which would make Twitter not as good to use because most of the new members maybe spammers, SEO experts, online marketers, and people trying to rank high in Twitter search by posting a lot of links and tweets about their website. They may think that ranking high in Twitter search by tweeting a lot would also make their website link show up on the first page of Google Search results for keywords related to their website link.

If Twitter becomes a site where there are a lot of links posted by website promoters, a lot of the existing members may get annoyed because their Twitter newsfeed, and Twitter search results will be full of links to websites instead of useful, and interesting tweets, pictures, videos/vines, etc.

 

[Black Angel]

I hope Google doesn't buy Twitter, if so, I will deactivate/delete my account there for sure.

Ditto, times 2 to the power of 99.

Squared.