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Twitter wants deals (plural), not a buyer

Yesterday was a day in tech news that I hope we don’t have to repeat again any time soon. If I’d seen one more “Apple is buying Twitter,” or “Apple isn’t buying Twitter, but here’s who should/is/might” post, I’m quite sure I would have vomited all over my shoes.

Finally, Ev came out and said it this morning (on The View, of all places). Twitter’s not for sale. Really?

No shit.

In case it hadn’t been made abundantly clear before, Twitter wants deals – plural – not a straight up purchase that will put them under someone else’s control.

They want to be “the platform” for microcommunication and profit from things like NowPublic. They want to profit from access to their data and users, not from grabbing a nice, fat, wad of cash from another big IT company (or publisher). It makes sense to me – then again, I’m no social media analyst.

Twitter has become far too important to settle for a simple sell-off.

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