7 – 1 Clues that Google/Twitter acquisition won’t happen
I found some clues that acquisition would highly unlikely to happen any time soon.
1. Mar. 7, Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google said it’s highly unlikely for Google to acquire twitter soon, on Charlie Rose show.
2. Twitter acquired a search engine for its own purpose back in 2008 and launched new search feature. It needs a lot more work to get to the point of real search engine. That is where a potential product partnership is possible
3. a high profile Google employee Douglas Bowman, head of visual design team just joined Twitter at the end of Mar.: it’s hard to imagine Eve or Biz Stone did not mention about acquisition potential to Douglas. If they did, that move won’t happen
4. For 48 hours since April 1 the fools day, my Google alerts about “twitter” never spit out any alerts at all about twitter: Google does not want too many people find out too many details about twitter, but somehow, someone knew some rumors are about to happen
5. No acquisition detail talk at all
6. Eve the CEO of twitter twitted on April fools day saying “There is no Twitter Pro” – could be a joke but at least it means twitter is NOT betting big on pro account. which means it is betting big on search, which means twitter think it’s the future of search, not Google, which also means, twitter could be the next Google. Do u think Evan would want to just do another deal with Google to repeat his previous success? Or do u think he wants to beat Google? I think latter.
