Apple Eats Bird

You'll never believe this, but I found another rumor on the Internet. Gasp! Do you need a moment? No? Then I shall continue:

Apple plans to buy Twitter, or so this rumor went, for $700 million dollars. Twitter, the popular social networking tool, has been the target of quite a few of these stories lately, including supposed purchase offers from both Google and Facebook. All these big companies want to give us the bird, but Biz Stone and Evan Williams, the co-founders of Twitter, have already laid the latest gossip to rest, stating during an interview on The View: "No. We are not for sale." Once again, Barbara Walters shines truth where before there were only dark whispers and deceit.

You have to hand it to the two gentlemen for holding on to their baby, especially when in many people's opinions Twitter itself has very few options for ever generating a decent income. Does that matter? Well, surely Twitter requires money to keep operational, and even with private investors they must eventually expect some kind of return. More than once I've heard people comment how Twitter needs some kind of "exit strategy" as if they're in dire need of some sort of escape.

Imagine you had a great invention you thought would change the way people communicated across the Internet, but the more it grew, the harder it was to control. Would you hand the stick over to someone you didn't know, who had more resources, or would you hang on to your original ideals and go down with the ship?

I give them more credit than that, of course. These guys were smart enough to make Twitter the beast it is today without any large corporation stepping in, and I don't doubt for a second that they have their own plans to keep Twitter going strong in the future. Aside from a few server hiccups due to the ever-increasing mass of accounts, everything is hunky dory. In fact, Twitter continues to improve their service! As of yesterday, the e-mail notifications you get will show the pictures for your new followers, plus the number of followers your new followers have, and how many people your new follower follows... I wonder how they’ll follow that.

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Comments

[Jeff Putz]

Which part of not having any revenue is "hunky dory?"