Today Twitter isn’t mass media. It is still a niche communication platform outside US.
But what happens if Google will buy them?
It will create a direct competitor to all journalists and existing media channels, like Fox News, CNN or BBC.
Twitter users as “Citizen journalists” will post their stories and have adwords. They will publish their pictures on Twitpic and get paid for it.
Good news or bad news? It depends. Twitter isn’t an open platform, it is again an user silo. Good for Twitter, good for Google, sometimes too much in transparent for it’s users.
Google tried to realize the same deal with Jaiku 2 years ago.
Jaiku was a niche community before Google. After the deal more and more spammer joined Jaiku.
Last year Jaiku failed and Google gave up the project
(it will be opensource, but for me the project failed).
The biggest fact: a Google/Twitter deal will initiate a worldwide inflation of new Twitter users. Those news will spread the Twitter community worldwide,
because Google knows everybody and a lot of people will look on Twitter, if Google will announce the deal.
But what happens to Twitter, if the big news will spread and more and more users and more and more spammers will join Twitter?
Maybe it will be harder to track real information or to filter the right value for me.
So it’s time to jump on an open Twitter alternatives, let’s be more active on Identi.ca …
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