Given how many of the valley's biggest thought leaders use Twitter very heavily, I'd be surprised if there weren't a lot of potential buyers. Then again, its va

Given how many of the valley's biggest thought leaders use Twitter very heavily, I'd be surprised if there weren't a lot of potential buyers. Then again, its value is high enough to shake out a lot of the smaller players, since the buy-in is pretty astronomically huge. If the valley is an echo chamber (it is), then Twitter echoes louder than most things I can think of. Very few companies have the kind of reach and influence within the valley that Twitter has.