Will Google be able to buy Twitter? or will they start there own Gwitter?

There has been speculations of Google trying to buy out Twitter since TechCrunch break the news on 2nd April this week. There has been rumors around the tech world that Internet will soon hear the news of a take over or a merger. You can have an idea of the pace at which news is spreading by the frequency of update - TechCrunch have three updates of the news since 2nd April.

Breaking news on TechCrunch -

Here’s a heck of a rumor that we’ve sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late stage negotiations to acquire Twitter. We don’t know the price but can assume its well, well north of the $250 million valuation that they saw in their recent funding.

Update 1 (2/3/09)

Yet another source says the acquisition discussions are still fairly early stage, and the two companies are also considering working together on a Google real time search engine. But discussions between the companies are confirmed.

Update 2 (3/3/09)

Google’s internal valuation, however, would value the company at a token premium above Twitter’s last round of financing valuation, around $250 million. Some Twitter insiders want the deal, but our sources say CEO Evan Williams wouldn’t sell even for $1 billion. “He may blink, but he wouldn’t do it,” said one source.

Update 3 (4/3/09)

In a non-denial blog post entitled “Sometimes We Talk” Twitter co-Founder Biz Stone says: “It should come as no surprise that Twitter engages in discussions with other companies regularly and on a variety of subjects.”

Would Google pay more than $1 billion for Twitter? No idea. But it seems like Google has not been successful to strike a deal so far.

But there’s no way Microsoft lets a deal be negotiated without putting its bid in, too. And if these two giants see Twitter as the future of search, $1 billion is peanuts.

Well I do wonder though - With all the expertise and money that both Google and Microsoft have, Will it not be easier for them just to create there own Gwitter (Google’s version of Twitter) or probably Mwitter (Microsoft’s version of Twitter). Well this is open for discussion, please leave your comments in the Comments section.

Meanwhile, business discussions between Twitter and Google continue. The deal Google wants is a real time feed of Twitter updates to speed indexing. Without that feed Google must independently index each Twitter user periodically to look for updates. That means it will be dreadfully slow in grabbing all those Twitter posts. And it will also be very expensive from a computing resource standpoint. A real time feed would be of huge value to Google, and they would be smart to nail down a long term deal sooner rather than later.

Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.