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Why doesn't facebook buy Twitter? It aligns well with its mission, also helps in establishing monopoly.
by mkagenius 10y ago
Why doesn't facebook buy Twitter? It aligns well with its mission, also helps in establishing monopoly.
- dageshi 10y agoThe last thing Facebook wants to do is appear to be a monopoly, if it bought Twitter it would pretty much own the entire social space so it'll never do it.
- jfoster 10y agoThey would probably attract unwanted regulatory interest if they even twitched in that direction.
- askafriend 10y agoI just don't think Facebook sees $10-20B in value that it couldn't build itself. Facebook's been building real-time Twitter-like features into it's core product for a while now. They're features that the general public will actually see/use compared to Twitter's niche active userbase. For Disney/Google, it's $10-20B in value that they CAN'T capture themselves and don't have the DNA to do so, so it's far more valuable for them at this price. If Twitter were $5B, then I have no doubt Facebook would try to snap (no pun intended) them up.
- choward 10y agoYou don't purchase a software company purely for its product. You also purchase the users and software engineers.
- askafriend 10y agoI agree, and I think the users/team would be more beneficial to Disney and Google than Facebook (which already has the DNA to build great social products).