Twitter Is for Sale and News Corp. a Likely Bidder, Michael Wolff Says

any chance there are rumors RM is going to buy SIRI to get it's stock price to quadruple over night? That would create more value than goog buying a profitless company and diluting is far overstated earnigns, even more, and more importantly make me some money

Glad to know there are other people who don't get Twitter, MySpace, & Facebook! I thought I read that Twitter users leave the service quite quickly, and many of those that do use it do not post many tweets.

I hope corporates should know that that's how those MySpace, Friendster, and Facebook lost people when they acquire them. Corporate intervention and lack of innovation! The only people who profit are those who found them. They'd be laughing all the way to the bank because they can simply make more sites like Friendster, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. then sell them again. People constantly want new social sites so years down the road, more popular sites will be out and no point buying them because people will simply lost interest on old social sites. The best bet that corporates should do is to invest startup social sites in hope they make big. lol, why spend billions when you can invest with few thousands or millions.

I don't use it, I thought it was just kids chasing the latest tech bling, but alot of folks from Brian Shannon (master day trader) to Dave Ramsey (tech challenged, financial guru) speak very highly of twitter.

Sell now. These are all money-losing businesses. YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter. You can't make money off of the "NOW" generation because they expect everything on the internet and most other things to be free.

This is the thing, people need to stay busy otherwise the mind goes numb. i've experienced it....but tweeter is just a fad ( A fashion that is taken up with great enthusiasm for a brief period of time; a craze.) can you really see twitter as strong 10 years from now? three months ago the inventors had no business plan. and this is at the peak of their invention. Business 101 states "you must have a 1-5-10 year plan before engaging in any venture", common sence allows you to see clearly...twitter is worth alot now...someone will but it and will make profit from it for a short time...2 yrs... because the life cycle of this service has already reached the peak and it's heading on the other side of the bell-shaped curve. (case study: cnn vs. kutcher)..it made us see how pitifull we are to use a service that clearly adds no value to ourselfs. this is the million dollar comment: "pay your users and your service will be profitable for years"

All these networking sites are fun! What is wrong with that? Nothing...You dope! Dow continues to sell off. Look for the bears to come out strong and in force.The market is selling all this junk amid the era of bailouts, what does that tell ya? Investors may need to sit on the sidelines and hope the markets test and retest the bottom. I am guessing fair value isn't overrated and is perhaps pulling equities south. I'd like to see the dow test the March lows. That's my prediction. My crystal ball may have blown a fuse here. Later gang!

I closed my FaceBook page - cause I have no idea why I need it....someone asked me to be the friend and I already was...! I heard a bird fly by and I swear it was saying Tweeter.....Tweeter.....Tweeter...!

Well I will be darn.....I spelled it wrong.......doesn't a bird go Tweeter...tweeter.....not Twitter.....Twitter?

OMG - it's Dr. Evil!

Nothing but a propaganda tool for intel agencies...Twitter is embarrassing.

ChickaBOOMer: MSNBC's David Shuster Lays An Egg http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2009/07/msnbcs-david-shuster-lays-egg.html

Pump and dump. Twitter is useless so they better sell it to News Corp while they can. God, I hope they do. I'd love to see Murdock buy another piece of crap and have to eat it.

Great Rupert Murdoch owning twitter. Like Fox news will it be Fake tweets?

Twitter is for twits...

The headline for this article is misleading and bad. @nd paragraph says "Williams and Stone have publicly stated they are not interested in selling Twitter anytime soon, and Marc Andreessen tells Tech Ticker he and other VCs aren't looking for a sale anytime soon."....So in other words...Twitter is not for sale. Hopefully it never will be.

Like anything overusing social media applications can be a problem, but like Time Magazine I believe that Twitter will change the way we live. http://tr.im/rlgr with it's ability to engage real-time, open conversations. If I want to know how many points were scored in a game, I search google. If I want to know what people are saying about a bad call the referee just made at a major game, I go to twitter. Remember when AOL first came out and every commercial ended in "AOL keyword "? Well twitter hash tags will be their equivalent + some. Google is the natural buyer for twitter since both Evan & Biz are ex-googlers and google has quite nicely figured out how to monetize their business model already. Twitter could be another one of google's tech freebies like Google Voice, Docs & (love LookUp function) to add to it's already massive data stores about how we play, buy, live and think. This was a great story.

Twitter proved its worth in the recent demonstrations in Teheran, but what rates for valuable use of time? Just like the Michael Jackson thing, it is so easy to fall prey to the latest distraction. No offense, but there seemed to be some meaning to the folkies of the 50s-60s, like Arlo Guthrie, Peter, Paul, and Mary, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Kingston Trio, or the peace-love-grow-your-own bands of the 60s-70s, but Michael seemed to be lost in some futuristic pipe dream that just led us all further and further into a dreamland of impossible alienating machine-like absurdity. Nevertheless, the whole world seems to find it easier to be distracted for the moment by the most common denominator, when it seems like we should be concentrating on doing something more productive with our time rather than always staring at the tube while our brain cells atrophy on the joy drug of irresponsibility. When the Big Mac combo hits $10.00 in about 12 months, I hope it does not take 18 months for the second stimulus package to get printed in the form of fast food stamps.

Companies like P&G and Johnson & Johnson layoff people while they hire expensive outfits like Digitas, that bill them US$25 million to handle there worldwide social media.

Actually twitter turned out to be pretty effective for all the news agencies during the IranElection uprising. W/O twitter, there would have been no news on the ground, and w/o all the followers tweeting encouragement and outrage, perhaps the forces of fascism would have been more deadly.