Comments on: Apple in Talks with Twitter! Well, Sort of… http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/05/apple-in-talsk-with-twitter-well-sort-of.html Internet Marketing News Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:40:15 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jeff Lazerus http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/05/apple-in-talsk-with-twitter-well-sort-of.html/comment-page-1#comment-72964 Jeff Lazerus Wed, 06 May 2009 13:18:11 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=10020#comment-72964 It really doesn't make sense to me for a few of reasons. One, Apple makes computers, iPod, iPhone, the OS, iTunes, and software the generally runs on the Mac and variants. How in the world does Twitter fit in that? Unless it is as Mark Sigal said, some sort of MobileMe direction. Two, the first Twitter commercial endeavor was with Microsoft. Hello! Third, Apple is not generally known for acquiring other companies. RARELY have they even partnered, unlike that promiscuous Microsoft. Twitter has a lot of users... but it hasn't really proven it can keep them. Maybe Apple started this rumor as a shill to get the price up and weaken their competition by depleting their cash. Maybe I saw Bigfoot in my backyard yesterday. I can invent any rumor if I don't have to come up with evidence. It really doesn’t make sense to me for a few of reasons. One, Apple makes computers, iPod, iPhone, the OS, iTunes, and software the generally runs on the Mac and variants. How in the world does Twitter fit in that? Unless it is as Mark Sigal said, some sort of MobileMe direction.

Two, the first Twitter commercial endeavor was with Microsoft. Hello!

Third, Apple is not generally known for acquiring other companies. RARELY have they even partnered, unlike that promiscuous Microsoft. Twitter has a lot of users… but it hasn’t really proven it can keep them.

Maybe Apple started this rumor as a shill to get the price up and weaken their competition by depleting their cash. Maybe I saw Bigfoot in my backyard yesterday. I can invent any rumor if I don’t have to come up with evidence.

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Whatever, 700mil should be enough for Apple to step in and B-Slap Twitter into removing the lame follow limits. If twitter keeps this up, expect some other service (friendfeed, jaiku or tumblr) to become top daddy of micro-blogging.

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]]> By: Mark Sigal http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/05/apple-in-talsk-with-twitter-well-sort-of.html/comment-page-1#comment-72932 Mark Sigal Tue, 05 May 2009 17:33:45 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=10020#comment-72932 While I am skeptical that Apple would make a deal like this, and it’s always silly to comment on (rumored) price tags on pre-revenue companies, I will say this; there is a logical scenario for Apple to acquire Twitter. First off, the status update message has emerged as the ultimate social gesture, and we all know how Apple is all about driving consumer engagement. Quantitatively speaking, it is something that Facebookers, MySpacers, tweeters, LinkedIn users do 1-10 times a day (whether they think of the activity as status updating or not). Now, if you married the simple atomicity of the update message with the ability of the messaging client to process “payloads” like pictures, videos, songs, contacts, locative data, documents, URLs, etc., you have a recipe to turn Apple's MobileMe service into its original moniker of “Exchange for the Rest of Us,” all the while having a core messaging infrastructure that is lightweight and portable enough to run on desktops, iPods, mobile devices and TVs. Here’s a post that I wrote, which provides a straw man analysis of what such an infrastructure might look like: "Right Here Now" services: weaving a real-time web around status http://bit.ly/i40h Check it out if interested. Cheers, Mark -- follow me via twitter @netgarden While I am skeptical that Apple would make a deal like this, and it’s always silly to comment on (rumored) price tags on pre-revenue companies, I will say this; there is a logical scenario for Apple to acquire Twitter.

First off, the status update message has emerged as the ultimate social gesture, and we all know how Apple is all about driving consumer engagement.

Quantitatively speaking, it is something that Facebookers, MySpacers, tweeters, LinkedIn users do 1-10 times a day (whether they think of the activity as status updating or not).

Now, if you married the simple atomicity of the update message with the ability of the messaging client to process “payloads” like pictures, videos, songs, contacts, locative data, documents, URLs, etc., you have a recipe to turn Apple’s MobileMe service into its original moniker of “Exchange for the Rest of Us,” all the while having a core messaging infrastructure that is lightweight and portable enough to run on desktops, iPods, mobile devices and TVs.

Here’s a post that I wrote, which provides a straw man analysis of what such an infrastructure might look like:

“Right Here Now” services: weaving a real-time web around status
http://bit.ly/i40h

Check it out if interested.

Cheers,

Mark
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follow me via twitter @netgarden

]]> By: Roy Morejon http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/05/apple-in-talsk-with-twitter-well-sort-of.html/comment-page-1#comment-72916 Roy Morejon Tue, 05 May 2009 13:44:24 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=10020#comment-72916 This could be a good fit for Apple - 700 mil does sound cheap. <em>Roy Morejon's last blog post..<a href='http://roymorejon.com/run-a-twitter-contest-with-tweetswin-socail-mediasoftware/' rel="nofollow">Run a Twitter Contest with TweetsWin Social Media Software</a></em> This could be a good fit for Apple – 700 mil does sound cheap.

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]]> By: Chris http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/05/apple-in-talsk-with-twitter-well-sort-of.html/comment-page-1#comment-72913 Chris Tue, 05 May 2009 13:28:25 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=10020#comment-72913 700 mil seems kind of cheap for twitter. 700 mil seems kind of cheap for twitter.

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