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porno izle — Sun, 23 May 2010 08:37:50 -0000

Yahoo needs a reason for people to love them again (Groups, by the way is a great product and I think that and Finance are probably their hidden gems).

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memory stick — Mon, 17 May 2010 07:04:43 -0000

Twitter needs to change their infrastructure and stop pulling the bird upside down. Yahoo needs a reason people still love them.

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sağlık ve kadın — Sat, 15 May 2010 14:11:03 -0000

thanks, Cisco should buy Twitter.

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seks — Sun, 09 May 2010 09:17:33 -0000

They just need a good database designer and migrate from Ruby on Rails to PHP or something that's 'mainstream strength.'

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Yumio — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 05:40:00 -0000

I wrote a little blog post about how I think Yahoo! is going to try to buy Twitter - maybe sneak it under before they themselves are bought by Microsoft - because all of my former colleagues at Yahoo! are joining Twitter en masse!

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Mr. Dew — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 11:31:23 -0000

I don't think Yahoo should buy Twitter. Instead it would be great if Twitter get bought over by Yahoo. Yahoo can quite easy make a similar service but it's hard to be profitable. Twitter has more and more technical issues recently.

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Jane Quigley — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:21:24 -0000

I have to say - even with the current and ongoing infrastructure issues - I trust the Twitter team and it's VC's Union Square Ventures. I think that they are figuring it out and while it's extremely frustrating (and maybe naive), I'm keeping the faith.

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David Petherick — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:07:49 -0000

Nah. Yahoo need to get what they already have into shape before they make any more acquisitions.

Cisco should buy Twitter.

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Edward Kustoff — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:08:27 -0000

Twitter needs something, but I'm not certain that's it. Whatever happens, I hope its ad free.

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Ewan Spence — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 07:20:21 -0000

No they don;t need bought, or accquire, or anything., They just need a good database designer and migrate from Ruby on Rails to PHP or something that's 'mainstream strength.'

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compassioninpolitics — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:04:28 -0000

>>However, I would prefer not to see it go to Google.

I believe that if went to Google, they could solve the reliability problems--which reliability & scalability & visibility are its largest three issues. Google could help in all three.

The search + twitter + productivity app mashup would be sweet.

Google...as long as they didn't go overboard with Adsense or other advertising.

If it went to Yahoo...it might suffer from the same fate that their carpet did. They ran out of money--and they ran out of carpet.

Re: Yahoo Should Buy Twitter- Yes or No

Lee McKusick — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 20:55:55 -0000

I think it would be a good move, especially with Google grabbing Jaiku (even if it might seem a bit copycat-ish.) And what people have said about stability is valid too.

I have no qualms with Yahoo or their acquisitions. I say, go for it, Yahoo! =)

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StevenHodson — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:22:51 -0000

What are you trying to do Chris give Twitter the kiss of death? :)

The last thing Yahoo should be doing at this point in their aimless wandering and snacking on anything that catches their eye is be buying anything.

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Ontario Emperor — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:49:56 -0000

From Yahoo's perspective, yes. From Twitter's perspective, no.

Yahoo could use the good PR, and the losses at Twitter wouldn't put that big a dent in Yahoo's budget.

However, a Yahoo acquisition of Twitter sounds to me like the Sears acquisition of K-Mart. Putting two troubled companies together does not necessarily result in a strong combination.

Who are the other candidates to purchase Twitter?

Unlike Jennifer Leggio (#1), I wouldn't mind a Google acquisition. Then again, I'm a fairly happy Blogspot user.

If Microsoft were to acquire Twitter, I fear they'd incorporate it into IE or Vista and neglect other browsers and OSes.

My big fear, however, is that a telco will acquire Twitter and make it exclusive to their users, to the exclusion of others.

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Kat — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:43:02 -0000

what the heck did you people do before twitter?

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Shawn K — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:44:16 -0000

Alright, wrap your head around this. Twitter is very simple and easy to use. What if Apple bought Twitter? Seamlessly integrate it into iChat, make it default on the iPhones, and find a way to make the whole Twitter experience even easier. Is it really so far fetched?

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julien — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:10:00 -0000

yahoo needs a way to increase their share price... so yes, very badly.

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mike ambs — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:00:37 -0000

My vote is yes :) Yahoo has done a great job with the sites you mentioned about - so, as long as treat twitter like they treat flickr :) it could only help.

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TDavid — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:43:49 -0000

No, no, no on Twitter going to Y! and I'm a Y! shareholder. I concur with Sam's comments (#7). Y! needs to use some of their cash to acquire businesses. Twitter isn't a business, it's a feature.

Yes, I know there is a strong community feature but how much of the same crowd does Y! already have with delicious and Flickr? My guess is 75%+. Difference with Twitter is they inherit architecture problems with no revenue plan in place and when/if they add it as Y! people will see it as "Y! evil" instead.

Now if Twitter monetizes, that could change the game.

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Sonia Simone — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:25:08 -0000

Not only is Twitter down too often, it takes forever to load. I like using it as my browser home page, but I'm constantly on the verge of re-setting it to Google because Twitter's so slow.

I think it needs better resources, and Yahoo is an interesting idea. I agree with Stephanie that I would really prefer it not go to Google.

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Hans Kainz — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:45:24 -0000

Yes, yes, yes. It would be great for yahoo´s stock quotation and also for the future and expansion of twitter.

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Don Lafferty — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 11:43:51 -0000

Twitter's growing pains are charming in an old school kinda way.

The thought of anybody acquiring Twitter doesn't feel good to me as it likely will come with service improvements that'll detract from Twitter's inherent simplicity.

I always tell my kids they have two invisible timers ticking away above their heads; one ticking down to their first partying experience and another marking the time until their first sexual experience. Arguably two things we in the adult world all enjoy and look forward to appropriately, even though both have a tendency to complicate what was once a simpler existence.

As a regular guy I know I can’t prevent my kids from participating in these natural pursuits of growing up, but as a parent my advice has always been to put both of these grownup activities off as long as possible.

Twitter has a timer floating over its head too, counting down the time till they’re gobbled up and rendered an official bauble in the collection of one of the Giants.

My advice is to put it off as long as possible.