No Twitter for You!

Appar­ently that’s what Biz Stone, co-founder of the most pop­u­lar microblog­ging site (which I use, by the way), said.  He told Bar­bara Wal­ters this dur­ing an inter­view on “The View”.

When host Bar­bara Wal­ters — men­tion­ing rumors that Google Inc, Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc might be inter­ested in acquir­ing the com­pany — asked whether Twit­ter is for sale, Stone answered, “no.”

I truly hope that they never cave to pres­sure to “sell out” to the “big” guys.  That’s what makes Twit­ter so unique and so pop­u­lar in my opin­ion.  It is its own island in a large ocean of social media.  Big­ger is not always bet­ter.  I feel that if Twit­ter were to sell out to Microsoft, Google, or Apple, we might start to see large adver­tise­ments pop­ping up in the header, side­bars, and footer of the page, slow­ing down the per­for­mance of the site.  I don’t know about you, but that would prob­a­bly cause me to stop using the service.

Appar­ently Twit­ter does plan to mon­e­tize its ser­vice this year.   I’m not sure what that will entail, but hope­fully it won’t involve huge ban­ner ads.  Sure, I know that com­pa­nies need to make money, and I hope the founders of Twit­ter are mak­ing lots of money.  But I digress…

Good answer, Biz Stone.  I’m glad you’re not sell­ing.  I’m anx­ious to see what changes will be com­ing and ser­vices you’re plan­ning to offer, and I look for­ward to see­ing what the future holds for Twitter.

Source:  Reuters

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