Here’s a CIO.com Web 2.0 adviser post on whether Twitter makes a better fit with Google because of its searchable information or Facebook for the social networking aspect. Efforts to monetize Twitter ought to be interesting as well as tracking its potential acquisition.
You find me on Twitter at http://twitter.com/davidkonline.
From the CIO.com link:
We pump lots of information into Twitter, and Google has shown, time and again, that it’s the mechanism on the Web that lets us sort through that information.
But to me, Twitter is just as much about people as it is information, and that’s where a Google acquisition falls a little short. While Google’s social team has been making some innovative products (like Friend Connect), the company hasn’t been the place where people want to connect with the people important to them in their life; Facebook has been that place for a couple years now.
I hope twitter stays independent. I think they can make it on their own.
Comment by ggw_bach — April 7, 2009 @ 2:55 pm
I’m with you on that hope, but it’s a fair bet Twitter is going somewhere. Hopefully largely, if not entirely, intact GUI- and user expereince-wise.
Twitter is just too hot right now and too pretty of a little jewel to not have some crazy number thrown at it in an M&A offer.
Comment by davidkirkpatrick — April 7, 2009 @ 3:11 pm