Twitter Wouldn’t Sell For $1 Billion, Says Source
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- Somecallmetim on 2009-04-06 - Tags twitter , google , m&a
- Imartin on 2009-04-04 - Tags gerücht , gerüchte , gespräche , google , microblogging , rumours , twitter , verkauf
- Marclijour on 2009-04-04 - Tags twitter , google , microblogging
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- Jhlundin on 2009-04-03 - Tags google , twitter
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The deal Google wants: a real time feed of Twitter updates to speed indexing. Without that feed Google must independently index each Twitter user periodically to look for updates. That means it’s dreadfully slow in grabbing all those Twitter posts. And it’s also very expensive from a computing resource standpoint. A real time feed would be of huge value to Google, and they’d be smart to nail down a long term deal sooner rather than later.
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It would be a coup for Google to get the Twitter milk without having to buy the cow. The real question is, does Twitter fully understand the value of this feed?
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