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Why Google or Yahoo should buy Twitter. (laserlike.com)
9 points by mspeiser 6419 days ago
6 comments

Twitter offers a potentially superior signal to noise ratio than blog content

Does anyone agree with this? I don't think brevity implies a greater density of information; often it means there's none at all.

There's no context to real-time information, no opportunity for its audience to either discuss or ignore it, and therefore no way to judge its relevance. The author seems to feel that the sheer newness of a Twitter feed guarantees its importance, but I think the chances of 140 characters written five minutes ago being more relevant than the topmost Google result is close to nil.

I don't think it has anything to do with SN ratio, but attention. Twitter gets quite a bit of time from each person a month, and therefore it is a valuable service.
from how many people though? i'm willing to bet not that many.
I would think Yahoo is having enough trouble with their own business model. To me, it wouldn't make sense to take on something that's, so far, been almost impossible to monetize.
too expensive for how much money it brings in. plus, it doesn't add anything to the google experience.

does twitter hold any patents? i read a while back that software patents don't apply unless they are somehow linked to hardware.

Please, no, those guys have fucked up enough start-ups already, leave Twitter alone!
Video of you crying like the "leave Britney alone" 'guy' please...
Can't... all my tears were spent on previous start-ups.
doesn't google own jaiku? and isnt jaiku just twitter++?
Twitter has much more mindshare than Jaiku, at least among the people I know.
yeah and it doesn't help they closed down invites for n months after they got acquired and wasted time porting their codebase over onto app engine
where is uncov dude when you need him? twitter is another example of a service that is slavishly adored by a microaudience but means nothing to 99.999% of the rest of the world and NEVER WILL. frankly yahoo would make more money acquiring dear abbey, fantasy badminton or more outlandish horoscopes.