[trequartista]

Kind of surprised Facebook is not interested or at least there's no news of Facebook being interested. Facebook already owns social networking, messaging and photo-sharing. Twitter would fit nicely into this portfolio as a niche for breaking news. Plus this would be an amazing opportunity to build an integrated user profile across all these platforms.

Wonder what the DOJ and the anti-trust guys would think of this though.

[jimmytidey]

My understanding (at least for Europe) is that since neither Twitter or FB charges 'users', there is no market which they are considered to be monopolising.

Of course they are in the advertising market, but there are not dominant there.

[sulam]

If Google can fall afoul of European anti-trust regulators, a tie-up of FB and TWTR absolutely would.