From SEI:
During yesterday’s earnings call, Google (GOOG) CEO Eric Schmidt talked up the benefits of a search deal with Twitter:
“Without commenting specifically about Twitter … you could imagine that … it could be a channel for product information, marketing information, real-time information for which you can hang advertising products, whether it’s a text ad or a video ad or so forth off of it … It strikes me that’s a logical strategy for them to pursue and something that we would be very happy to pursue with them and all other players in that space.”
These are interesting comments as just recently Eric Shmidt made some comments trivializing twitter. I suspect there may be some posturing involved in those comments. I certainly think there are tremendous synergies between google and twitter and a partnership would be mutually beneficial. However I do not want google to buy twitter at this juncture. I would like to see twitter evolve and innovate as an independent company.