Google has 45 accounts on Twitter — why not just buy them?

July 11, 2009 | Dean Takahashi | Comments |
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twitter-googleIf you love something so much that you want to buy it, you shouldn’t profess your love for it to the world. It will just increase the price.

So it’s a little puzzling that Google, which probably wants to buy Twitter just because it’s hot, pointed out in a blog post today that the search giant has 45 different official accounts on Twitter. That’s a lot of love for the micro-blogging service. Google has accounts for everything, including Twitter.com/GoogleArabia for Arabic Tweets. There’s also Twitter.com/DataLiberation, which advances Google’s goal of organizing all of the world’s data, even if its owners don’t want to liberate their data. And then there’s Twitter.com/GooglePolicyIt for policy issues that Google cares about in Italy. Meanwhile, Google executives keep talking about how it’s important for them to expand into real-time search.

Now if Google keeps up the love for Twitter, the founders at Twitter are just going to get more and more excited about how much Google will bid for them. If I were Google’s mergers and acquisitions negotiators, I’d start a Twitter account dubbed “Twitter is just so 2008.”

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Dean is lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He covers video games, security, chips and a variety of other subjects. Dean previously worked at the San Jose Mercury News, the Wall Street Journal, the Red Herring, the Los Angeles Times, the Orange County Register and the Dallas Times Herald. He is the author of two books, Opening the Xbox and the Xbox 360 Uncloaked. Follow him on Twitter at @deantak, and follow VentureBeat on Twitter at @venturebeat.

  • metromediasquarecom
    Google is becoming evil if not already. Just what they said they never wanted to do. Tsk.

    @Wonder_Wheel
  • Oh Interesting!
    Google uses Twitter! that too 45 accounts!
    Okay
  • Sixer
    Google is a huge company. Different teams and different departments will have different reasons to start a Twitter account. There's nothing in this post that isn't completely subjective and just plain lame.
  • Name
    Because 45 twitter accounts are free?
  • And Microsoft has 65 Twitter accounts - likely more, since I know of a few that aren't on this list - so should they just buy Twitter as well?

    Unofficial list of Microsoft Twitter accounts: http://securitygarden.blogspot.com/2009/07/micr...
  • Big companies love to pile up the accounts, it appears (and not just Google).
  • Why Google is in love with Twitter? Does Google is interested in buying Twitter to expand its real time search..??
  • Chuck Prince
    Google buying Twitter would be a huge mistake. Aside from signing up millions of geeks, what has Twitter really delivered. Yes, kudos to Twitter for creating a buzz about the service. But, really, there is no business model and this may go down in history as a top 5 fad
  • I liked your comment about data liberation.

    Google should give the world free anonymized top search terms data in real-time.
  • They are designing their own... http://wave.google.com
    Source Direct
  • I bet they dont have all of their accounts for twitter rolled into 1 gmail account, seeing you can only have 5 rolled into 1 with gmail!!
  • 45 twitter accounts? I want to know how many data centers they have monitoring twitter's output :)
  • Twitter IS just so 2008.
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