Google & Twitter Acquisition

In case you missed it, Manny Pacquiao (Philippines) just knocked out Ricky Hatton (UK) in under six minutes. “With his precision-like accuracy, Pacquiao knocked out Hatton in the second round; his right and left hooks were too much for Hatton. The final blow sent Hatton to the canvas hard”. I knew that Pacquiao was the favourite to win this fight and probably could have made some money last night. But the thing is, I don’t gamble and the thought never crossed my mind until the fight was over. That’s when I started thinking how I could turn Pacquiao’s victory into a blog post that related to Internet Marketing and remembered reading this post early yesterday afternoon about Twitter buyout odds. They basically put some odds up for people to bet on which online entity would buyout Twitter; Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! or Facebook? read the rest of my post to find out who’s the favourite to acquire Twitter are and how much I money I could have made last night.

A 2009 Twitter Acquisition?

When it comes to web companies, Google definitely takes the cake in my opinion. Besides ruling the Super Search Engine Title of the World, Google has some sweet accolades under its belt such as, YouTube, which in November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for US$1.65 billion; one of the best purchases I’ve ever seen. Online Video is huge and will only get bigger and much more important as I see Online Video KO Cable TV. Who is Google looking to take over next? why not Twitter?

In March 2006, a small Bay Area company company was founded called Twitter. In just over three years, Twitter has not only influenced the biggest social network in history, Facebook, in changing its look and feel.

As far as how much Twitter is worth these days, I haven’t read anything recently that raises its worth from the $50 – $150 Million estimates I saw last year. However, I did just read this post on TechCrunch.com discussing how much a Suggested Slot is worth on Twitter. Suggested Slots was recently added to Twitter’s sign up process and provides a short list of high profile Twitters you may be interested in following right off the bat. I’ve seen CNN and Ashton Kutcher on the list here and there after signing up any new accounts. The post shows a Tweet message from Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis that he offered Twitter co-founders Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams $120 K for one of the slots for one year and $250 K for two years in advance. For anyone wondering how Twitter is going to make money, there’s some proof for you.

Twitter is definitely going to be making some big money. The only question is now, if they’re going to be taking bids, which company would you put your money on?

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