Comments on: Google May Buy Twitter. Or Not. But Why is Twitter So Hot?

By: marianasoffer

marianasoffer — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:05:29 +0000

because messages are too short and it works on real time but the real one cause it iis very easy to analize quickly short sentences

By: Social Media Evangelist

Social Media Evangelist — Sat, 23 May 2009 07:13:17 +0000

Reading this made me realize why Om Malik is THE Om Malik! “”Twitter was like a megaphone for everyone on the planet”". I don’t think anybody could elucidate Twitter impact more succinctly. Really it has come as a mind-opener!

I feel emancipated to be one of your many followers!

Manish Pahuja

By: realin

realin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:57:45 +0000

they gonna buy it, ruin it in a year and then discontinue it :P

By: Melvin Durable

Melvin Durable — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 12:34:07 +0000

Don’t know what will happen with those two. But there are some synergy effects to be reached for both of them.

Melvin Durable
melvindurable@gmail.com

By: Virtual Web Symphony

Virtual Web Symphony — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:54:57 +0000

Google may not buy Twitter at this point of time but surely it has put a mechanism in place thru Google Ventures to map any new idea which might see the light of the day. Henceforth, no idea or a budding venture will miss Google’s radar.
And eventually Twitter may as well fall back on Google’s lap as at the moment it’s bereft of any revenue generating model or idea. Twitter’s growth has been phenomenal but it has not been able to generate or put in place any revenue generating model.

By: Cardaleel

Cardaleel — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:54:53 +0000

Personally, I would love it if Google buys Twitter, because I believe they will integrate Adsense with it, and then twitterers can make some money. Also, the service will be u more and fewer service outage

By: Adam_T

Adam_T — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:18:37 +0000

Twitter is a new version of online chat. In fact I predict that it morphs into nothing more than a Chat room and sexual hookup service filled with corporate Spam.
Its really cool to have something that shows what people are talking about (um not really) until that becomes just a noisy room and you cant hear yourself think. Like Blogs were a few years ago (when everyone had to have a blog) Twitter will find its place in the corner of the web where a few loyal followers and tweeters hang. A great service and a super name but a long term, defensible business? No…

Will someone please tell me how and why Twitter will maintain its user base? Seriously after a few weeks it becomes more of an annoyance than a killer app. that I need. If you follow the right people in the right situation it becomes more of a news service and News is really only good for a few minutes a day for most people.

By: Nick Lee

Nick Lee — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 11:44:35 +0000

Hi Om,

Not sure about in the US, but in Asia and I think in UK as well, SMS recipient does not get charged for receiving SMS.
I believe there are hugh SMS termination costs to deliver twitter SMS in these regions.

I am just curious and anxiously to see what is twitter’s strategy to become profitable.

By: umoja

umoja — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:30:26 +0000

Well MS never had a successful organic web venture, and Google is behaving more and more like MS every day.

By: Wifiguy

Wifiguy — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:18:32 +0000

I know twitter search has cut my Google searches in half. It is just more interesting to see what people are thinking about things like the Jay Cutler trade and the Blackberry Appworld store, and ofcourse the obsession with everything iPhone. It’s also comforting to know that I’m not the only one addicted to Cadbury Mini eggs.

By: francinehardaway

francinehardaway — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:20:10 +0000

I liked your three-part analysis:
1)the disaggregation of the web
2)the publishing of more social objects (and the need to direct people to them)
3)the drift/shift toward real time.
Twitter does combine them, and that is Twitter’s value proposition. I think a major media company would be a better buyer than Google, MSFT, or any of the usual suspects. That’s because Twitter is about publishing and communicating, not about its underlying technology, which consists mostly of apps developed on its little platform.

I wouldn’t sell Twitter into this market, and I disagree with your reader who says we will get over it. That person doesn’t remember email.

By: Dekonstruct

Dekonstruct — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:33:26 +0000

Twitter becoming a verb, that’s a good catch. I remember when a startup search engine became a verb and then basically ruled the world. What was their name again? Goggle?

I guess if anyone on this social media ‘spherehicky is going to make it big, it would be twitter… and no one really knows why.

By: rohit

rohit — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:17:47 +0000

In this age of social web, adoption is invention. A billion swallows will float many fail whales.

rohit

By: anthony

anthony — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:15:18 +0000

this is a better deal for CNN or NY Times as the acquirer.

@subwaystory

By: Internet Strategist

Internet Strategist — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:14:17 +0000

Question: What is the best way to grow your business without spending money on advertising? Answer: Free media coverage! How did Google get so big? How many times did you hear about Googling something on the news and in television shows versus how many times you heard Yahoo! it in those same sources?

Why was MySpace huge? Same reason. Now it is Facebook and Twitter. Those who own the media can increase growth and drive up stock prices. Even those who don’t can be smart enough to figure out how to get free publicity.

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:59:10 +0000

i think rohit you got it right …. i think this is where the web is going and i am pretty sure google will have some sort of an answer to this development. the IQ inside the company is too high for them not to see it. I think TWitter/Whatever as an acquisition target be one part of their approach – whether they can get it right is a whole different stor.

My belief is that ultimately Google will “invent” this stuff but at the same time will be challenged by lack of mainstream adoption.