Twitter: Years After the Alphabet Acquisition

Someone should append a (2019) to the title.

Way overpriced. All the cool kids are using GnuSocial&#x2F;OStatus anyways (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OStatus" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;OStatus</a>).

This is an unreal post: &quot;When Alphabet bought Twitter back in June 2016 for almost $29 billion&quot;, you can easily check Twitter valuation at $10 billion here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&amp;ei=gHO_VpH9GsnBe-iwiZAN" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&amp;ei=gHO_VpH9GsnB...</a> so... spending 3X the public market valuation will be crazy.<p>And speaking about science fiction, what will Alphabet&#x2F;Google do to turn around Twitter?<p>Also the posts saying: &quot;I quit Facebook&quot; are nonsense, how many people around you removed themselves from FB? Most probably, very few.

$29b in cash and stock?? Man, I&#x27;m really looking forward to the 150% run up in TWTR before Alphabet makes that $43 tender offer. brb calling my broker

From the article: &quot;Twitter is live&quot;.<p>Now that&#x27;s a useful concept to focus the business. That tells Twitter what not to do. Twitter should do only things that are happening right now. All retrospective uses of Twitter data would be via Google and Google accounts.<p>Monetization of Twitter might not involve ads on Twitter. Google could data-mine Twitter for ad-targeting data. That might be more useful than &quot;paid tweets&quot;.<p>Google&#x27;s AI capabilities could be used to digest the Twitter flood and create news alerts. A Google Maps overlay of where things are happening on Twitter right now, for example. Enough activity, and a Google satellite (yes, Google has their own spy satellites [1]) would focus on the target area as soon as possible.<p>This could work out.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2014-06-10&#x2F;google-buying-satellite-company-skybox-imaging-for-500-million" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;2014-06-10&#x2F;google-buy...</a>

I really hope google will buy twitter so it can put back real time search in twitter stream a few years ago as an experiment.

Why is there an earnings call if it&#x27;s wholly owned by Alphabet?

So Periscope and Moments would be the saving grace of Twitter? On what planet does the author live?

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You have a typo, in the section about Twitter&#x27;s business tools you said they have &#x27;&quot;millions of&quot; of users&#x27;.

Ha ha...April Fools came early this year