The Impending Twitter Acquisition
As someone who predicted Obama’s victory really, really early (based on U.S. demographic shifts, without any other evidence), yet didn’t publish the prediction anywhere (although I did make a killing on the WSJ’s futures game and was briefly in first place in the Fall of 2008), I want to be sure to publish this prediction here, now (6/7/09):
Twitter gets bought or enters into a major partnership with another firm this Summer (2009), probably by the end of July.
Why? Not monetization, but infrastructure. They can’t keep the lights on because their platform doesn’t scale. You can’t hang ads on the Fail Whale.
Who? Obvious money goes on Google. Nobody does infrastructure as well as they do. I think a partnership with LinkedIn would also make sense, but then again, my perspective is off because I use Twitter professionally much more than I use it personally.
I know that I am about the 10,000th blogger to speculate on this, but I want to be able to point to this post in the coming weeks when Twitter sells out.
