"Here's a heck of a rumor," said Michael Arrington in TechCrunch. "Google is in late-stage negotiations to buy Twitter," according to two reliable sources. A deal would surely be "well north of the $250 million valuation" that venture capitalists placed on Twitter when they invested in February, but it's still a "brilliant deal" for Google, which needs Twitter's expertise in real-time Internet search.
"Real-time is the future of everything, someone wrote three seconds ago," said Owen Thomas in Gawker. Real-time anything certainly appeals "to the Ritalin addicts of the tech and media worlds, for whom instant gratification" takes too long. (watch Jon Stewart's Twittermania critique) But the trouble with sinking a fortune into Twitter is "its lack of any sincere interest in making money."
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