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 …

Ok, for search we have a lot of alternatives, like Yahoo, Digg etc.

It’s all about competition and searching alternatives for a service we use.
If you drive a Ford and you are unhappy with your Ford, you can buy a Golf or a BMW.

So, for microblogging it must be a good idea to have an alternative to Twitter: Identi.ca.
Twitter is closed source completely, but Identi.ca is based on opensource for Microblogging.
The service Identi.ca is an Open Source, CreativeCommons framework for a distributed network of federated microblogging services, based on Laconi.ca.

* What happens, if Twitter is down?
* What happens, if Twitter will grow and have more and more “marketing spam”?
* What happens, if Twitter will filter messages in future and we user cannot review what they do?

Microblogging is about people. So we will see, what the future will bring us.
But is there room to live beside Twitter (Google will close Jaiku as alternative, they not really stop the project, but put it opensource)?

Identi.ca have some good potentials to grow as service like Twitter in the same way as we have different
messaging networks like MSN, ICQ, Yahoo, Google Talk.
Why not push Identi.ca with some good ideas from the opensourced Jaiku…

I’m looking forward to see future applications for Identi.ca, like Twhirl or Tweedeck for Twitter.
It should not be as hard as Identi.ca offer a similar API like Twitter.

Twitters first growth was based on their first-mover status, then they grew up based on fantastic applications from the community based on their public API,
but has Identi.ca a chance to jump on this wagon?