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I don't see how Salesforce could get much value out of Twitter. They could get it out of LinkedIn (sales people use LinkedIn sales navigator a lot), but likely

I don't see how Salesforce could get much value out of Twitter. They could get it out of LinkedIn (sales people use LinkedIn sales navigator a lot), but likely not at the price Microsoft has paid for LinkedIn.

netik 10y ago
Well, they bought Yammer which at the time was a direct Twitter clone (but made for small businesses.) You know what would make for a better acquisition? Amazon. Twitter has tons of customers, tons of dark fiber, lots of internal cloud technologies (mesos, etc.) and a huge international peering network of IP routers. Amazon needs a way into social and real time news.
- vosper 10y ago
  > Amazon needs a way into social and real time news. Why does Amazon need this?
  - the_watcher 10y ago
    They don't need it, but I can see why they'd perhaps want it.
    - walterbell 10y ago
      Amazon has Twitch, a payments product and invests in original content for streaming video. Twitter has been experimenting with video streaming, e.g. sports.