Google and Twitter are negotiating a deal now and many people are concerned that the wild-west fun of Twitter will soon end if Google Corporate gets their hands on it.  My concern is how will it affect the way people communicate (tweet)?

Wild West Ending Soon

Like the dotcom bubble from the 90′s, Twitter is growing rapidly and is making up the business rules as they go. They don’t have a business plan and aren’t making any money, but have plenty of funding.

Searching Twitter Now Faster

Recently, Twitter incorporated their real-time search feature onto the user pages.  The search feature beats Google in terms instant speed-to-market search.

Monetize Twitter

With the push of a button Twitter could be turned into a money machine by putting relevant Google ads or other advertising on the site pages and/or auto feeding ads into 140 characters of text and pushing them out in the content streams.

Others ways include licensing corporate versions of Twitter, taking the company public, or selling it to the highest bidder (Facebook) was talking with Twitter last month.

It’s bizarre why so many senior executives at Twitter are leaving. Maybe they know the ultimate plans and didn’t care for becoming the next zillionaire.

Effects of Change

How will any of these changes affect you using Twitter to communicate?

Would ads be a problem? I don’t think they would bother me as long as they are relevant like Facebook’s ads. But, I stopped using Yahoo mail because the advertising was becoming too offensive (jiggley, single females advertising to a married guy with wife and kids in the room – not good).

-David

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