According to a tweet today by Twitter CEO Evan Williams, today is a “very big day.” Williams will be appearing on the Oprah talk show. Elsewhere on Twitter, prominent twittizen Ashton Kutcher, tweeted that he too will be “twittering live” with Oprah tomorrow, concluding his tweet with: “Gentleman start your search engines. LOL.“
Now, It seems to me that both tweeters may be hinting at subtly what they cannot say outright: That Williams will announce Google’s acquisition of the microblogging service on the Oprah show or sometime before the show.
Kutcher has only 140 characters or less to tell fans he’s going to be Twittering on Oprah, and in that cramped space references “search engines” followed by “LOL”? Unless we’re being punk’d, I’d say that was a pretty blatant hint. If so, they’re not the only ones dropping hints. Google CEO Eric Schmidt conspicuously “heaped praise upon” Twitter in that company’s earnings call. There’s no way he’d be doing that unless he wanted to secure a major deal of some kind with Twitter, or has already done so.
Any of these hints by itself wouldn’t mean anything, but all three together make me believe that the rumored acquisition hits tomorrow. Then, a friend burst my bubble and said: Tomorrow will be the day or even tonight when the first person on Twitter breaks a million followers. It’s a race between @aplusk and @cnnbrk.
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Hot News » Google Fail added these pithy words on May 14 09 at 10:10 pmI hope not!
While google is an unstoppable machine, lately it is not doin well with the aqqusitions they did,grandcentral.com was bought and then closed down it’s service for new members.
On another note skype founders are trying to buy back skype from eBay, because eBay failed to do anything with it.
I have been digging twitter the past few weeks, and for me it’s more interesting than facebook, I hope google fail to buy it
Thaer added these pithy words on
Apr 18 09 at
4:00 am
Excellent catch Moey
They have been negotiating aquiring it for sometime now. I think that Google needs the power of live-streaming search. Their search engine failed to bring up latest events. It takes time to index things and rank it. Twitter new search service is a fresh new experience to many. I have pointed that out few weeks ago.
I don’t like to post links in other’s blogs, but you have to out my post
http://thoughtpickers.blogspot.com/2009/03/is-it-time-for-google-to-start-tweeting.html
fadithoughtpick added these pithy words on
Apr 18 09 at
9:51 am
