i've posted this on other forums to get some ideas and feedback...but I'm gonna go out on a limb here and bet on two things: 1) Twitter will be sold to a larger conglomerate sooner rather than later in 2010 2) Twitter will be sold for less than the $500 million they were offered by Facebook in 2009. They were really silly in this current climate to turn this down in my opinion. We'll see how it pans out. Any thoughts?
I disagree. If a corp. buys twitter how will they try to get their money back? By adding ads to the 140 character Tweets? I don't think the Twitter Users would take too kindly to that and would abandon it completely. The Twitter-Concept is one that is easily emulated, so if Twitter goes to the wasteland because of corporate ownership/meddlings another Twitter-Clone is sure to pop up. If it is to be sold it would be for much more than $500 Million, IMHO, so we disagree there too.
Sorry - can't see it happening to Twitter - AT LEAST for this year. However, I do think Twitter is vulnerable.
Twitter will not sell this year. Two or three years later, that's when it happens. The price will be in billions, not millions.
It's too soon for Twitter to sell. I would say in the next 3years they would. Unless a gain company comes and offers them a large sum, which I would guess somewhere around the billions. Even that I would think the BOD of twitter would deny them.
i dont think your prediction is right. they just made two big deals with microsoft and google. twitter is growing super fast, nobody sane would think of selling it now.
I read a story that Twitter is hiring people to turn the site around to help it make more money. Sure its profitable for people to use but since the service is free they're having a hard time making money. This to me shows signs that it could be sold. How soon? Who knows.
I don't think either prediction will happen The one I have is Twitter will start charging for business accounts.
Not sure what will happen with Twitter in 2010 but it has been a fun ride watching it grow and the ups and down have a lot of lessons in it. Have a great day!
The heat of Twitter has already slown down dramatically, so if it wants to survive, it will need better strategies.
I don't think you are right. I don't think twitter will be sold this year, they will try to make more money first and I think they are right in doing that. I will only make them more worth!
why would twtter be sold to a bigger corporation? they have a lot of money already, I heard that google paid twitter 2.5billion dollars so that google can search and index our tweets. so i dont see any reason why they will sell twitter.