Twitter, the much-hyped social media site that is attracting millions daily it seems, has reportedly caught the attention of the biggest player in the online game: Google.
U.S. technology news site TechCrunch is reporting that the Internet giant is in “late-stage” negotiations to acquire Twitter for an undisclosed amount (a report since disputed by another well-read tech blog, All Things Digital).
Google-Twitter Talk
While the original story asserts with fairly firm authority that a deal is as good as done — “We don’t know the price but can assume it’s well, well north of the $250 million valuation that [Twitter] saw in [its] recent funding,” TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington states — Swisher tells a drastically different tale. In actuality, her report indicates, Google and Twitter have been holding only “product-related discussions” about search-related issues. “It was very preliminary … and that was that,” one of her sources says.
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Twitter: What are you doing?
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