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  • Oh God No Google Wants To Buy Twitter It’s All Over

    10 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone in Business, Tech/Sci, Very Cool, Vibe, World
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    Ha. But no, seriously, they’re talking about this – the dudes and ladies who run Twitter are being courted by a couple of companies, Facebook and Google among them, who want to shell out the $10bn that the company is apparently worth. Predictably, a bunch of people are whining about this being the end of Twitter, etc.

    I point out that this was the same sentiment voiced when Google Buzz popped up, or when Twitter gave itself a facelift, or when Facebook came out with Facebook Lite – remember Facebook Lite? Oh you do? Well that’s embarrassing. Because I was trying to make that point that Facebook Lite was a massive failure, and that nobody remembers it because nobody uses it, but hey, I guess you’re special that way.

    Or hey, remember when Google bought Youtube and we were all convinced that everything would change in the whole world forever?

    Which isn’t to say that letting a company purchase Twitter wouldn’t change things – I look to the Google/Youtube model as a way that things can be preserved in a changing of hands, but if somebody else – Facebook, say – were to acquire the thing, it could be a fairly different ball-game for a while. We’ll bitch about it, and some people will leave The Twitters and we will miss them very much and then a few weeks will pass and then we will forget that anything had ever been different.

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