DISQUS

Great work Scott! Your enthusiasm and understanding of Social Media presents a wonderful case for all businesses to embrace and utilize in their adoption of SM principles.

Also, a big thanks to Ron Ploof for building such an awesome and well written case.

First off, even though Twitter's team has not yet found a great way to monetize, I think its a terrible idea to consider an acquisition by Facebook. Twitter is a much smaller application by comparison, and regardless of perceived valuation, any acquisition for anything less than 50% cash is ludicrous. Besides, Facebook cant really afford them with real "street money". Twitter, in my opinion is a much more focused app, and much more easily monetized. Additionally, with Twitter being so much more simple than facebook, its overhead is much lower and its cash burn rate is much much less by comparison.

Facebook has proven that they are great at generating traffic, and just shy of terrible at generating sustainable cash flows. An acquisition of Twitter by Facebook could be ultimately disastrous, and the idea reminds me of what we just saw with General Motors and Chrysler where they originally wanted government backing to support a merger before the bail out talks began. My point here, both sites have PAPER VALUATIONS, and they are not generating sustainable revenue, so what is the sense of merging two companies that are not making money? Monetize and focus on what you're good at. On the flipside, should an acquisition take place, and Facebook proves that it is ultimately unable to proceed, the Twitter founders and investors loose everything they've worked so hard to achieve and all the windfall prospects are gone.

Wow, some people just don't get it! What is the value of blasting who knows how many people with useless crap.

Reminds me of the many MLM people that have tried to tackle me at Borders. Seriously, get a clue people.

Hopefully everyone on the list deleted and blocked the guy!