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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? Amazo
by 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 agoThey don't need it, but I can see why they'd perhaps want it.
- walterbell 10y agoAmazon has Twitch, a payments product and invests in original content for streaming video. Twitter has been experimenting with video streaming, e.g. sports.