Twitter's Dorsey Stirs Up Google (GOOG) Takeover Rumors

Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter, recently stirred up more rumors of a potential takeover of his buzzing community by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), the Daily Telegraph reports.

At LeWeb 09 in Paris, during a panel session, Dorsey was asked is Google was planning on acquiring Twitter. His answer? "There have been no announcements."

Well, as sure as the sun shines, the Internet immediately became flooded with speculation. Bookies in Vegas began taking bets, and Twitter itself began to enhance the aura.

When asked about the response, Dorsey said, "It just came to me." "Twitter is focused on building a sustainable company," he went on.

Earlier this year, on similar stories, Eric Schmidt said, "it would be wrong to speculate that an acquisition is planned."

Google is fast moving to capitalize on the real-time web, recently showing off how quickly it can query tweets from Twitter. Eric Schmidt even recently added his own Twitter page...hmm

Our advice? If you own a major social-networking community perpetually being analyzed on how it can bag boatloads of money from advertising revenues, potentially from the master itself, take a moment to think about the answer.

As far as the logic of a deal between the two, it would be a match made in heaven. I'm sure Google has approached them, but Twitter may not be ready to sell... yet.

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