Comments on: Companies buying Twitter: Enough already!

The rumors just keep getting more and more absurd: Now Apple wants to buy Twitter, according to the blog gossip mill.

[sailforme]

Loved your story about Twitter today. Two things you sort of skipped over, however.



1) Twitter?s retention rate is less than 50% (so they say). That means it is far from a sticky application such as Facebook. Personally, I think it is going to fizzle out.

2) With $20 million I bet you that Apple could build ?iTwitter? on their own for all phone platforms and all forms of computing devices. Why spend $500M for a technology backed by a fizzling brand.



I?d be willing to bet that 24 months from now facebook will have created it?s own version of Twitter (or Apple) and the old Twitter will be gone. If I were I private stock holder in Twitter I?d be screaming??SELL NOW?TO ANY ONE WILLING TO PAY ANYTHING NORTH OF $25 MILLION?

[pentest]

Apple is an OEM with their own OS, not a hardware company.

It is funny how people confuse putting components together with actually designing and building the circuits. Two totally different things.

[meechp123]

Thanks for KEEPING IT REAL!

[asmcgrath]

Loved this line:

"I'm not sure Twitter could convince me to buy any hardware, except maybe a water balloon to carry around in the hopes that maybe I could lob it at annoyingly Twitter-happy Ashton Kutcher."

Great article

[Hellcat]

Who cares who buys twitter. The more scary news is Apple looking to buy EA. If that happened NO good games would come out and worse probably no games for the PC or Xbox 360. I hope someone else buys them if they're looking to be bought.