When Twitter Met Facebook: The Acquisition Deal That Fail-Whaled | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD (75)
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About three weeks ago, Facebook and Twitter ended several weeks of serious talks, in which Facebook was offering to acquire Twitter for $500 million of its stock. While rumors of Facebook’s interest were brought up in an interview with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the Web 2.0 Summit a few weeks ago, some shot down the idea as silly. Quite incorrectly, as it turns out, since top execs at both Facebook and Twitter were right ...
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Geoff said:
I agree with Twitter's decision, but i'd probably make a tasty sandwich for Facebook stock just to say i did.
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Boris Mann said:
Ha! I LOL'd -- "I’m not sure I’d sell a sandwich in exchange for Facebook stock."
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Andrew said:
Depends what's on the sandwhich, I think it might be worth good pastrami.
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Nate said:
Facebook sounds a bit greedy here. Despite Facebook integrating updates into their news feeds, Twitter still keeps on picking up users and buzz.
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Pheelmore said:
no,sandwiches are just too good.
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Josh said:
Facebook sounds desperate.
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Romain said:
Haha :)
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Andrew Meyer said:
Facebook tried to buy Twitter... weird.
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