alleyinsider.com— Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million of overvalued Facebook stock, Kara Swisher says. Twitter rejected the offer for several reasons
Nov 24, 2008View in Crawl 4
@jerrycurley: The stick market, no, the stock market however I'm pretty clued up yes :) And since when does being 18 (no longer a 'kid' in the UK fyi) make me any less clued up than an old man who obviously forgot to take his pills this morning.**Waits for the "I was in the war and fought for this country" reply**
Am I the only person who realizes WHY Facebook tried buying Twitter? They need a flagship Facebook Connect service to throw down, and Twitter would be a perfect candidate for that.Twitter's services are terribly managed, as their uptime is not reliable at all. Their API goes down randomly, emails stop sending, text messages choke up.. If Twitter thinks it can continue to provide a trendy service with zero revenue model, they better shape up and get their services in order, or the investors will snap their wallets like a well oiled bear trap.
jpkeisalaNov 25, 2008
Event though I would have stop Twittering if they would have gone to lame Facebook I still think they should have take it.
alexkreuzNov 25, 2008
/* Insert mandatory Ron Paul reference here */
omjeremyNov 25, 2008
rofl
Closed AccountNov 26, 2008
@jerrycurley: The stick market, no, the stock market however I'm pretty clued up yes :) And since when does being 18 (no longer a 'kid' in the UK fyi) make me any less clued up than an old man who obviously forgot to take his pills this morning.**Waits for the "I was in the war and fought for this country" reply**
thegman3Dec 4, 2008
Wow! This sure would have been crazy.
gerphimumDec 14, 2008
Am I the only person who realizes WHY Facebook tried buying Twitter? They need a flagship Facebook Connect service to throw down, and Twitter would be a perfect candidate for that.Twitter's services are terribly managed, as their uptime is not reliable at all. Their API goes down randomly, emails stop sending, text messages choke up.. If Twitter thinks it can continue to provide a trendy service with zero revenue model, they better shape up and get their services in order, or the investors will snap their wallets like a well oiled bear trap.