There has been quite a bit of speculation and talk about Google buying Twitter although I have not seen anything solid until last week when all of the Google Blogger.com accounts had Twitter Favicon icons on them for two days. I verified this for customer and internal Blogger accounts from multiple computers then searched online for a formal announcement after verifying the Twitter icons on Google Blogs.
By Monday December 20th the Twitter icons have mysteriously disappeared from the Google Blogger accounts though anyone paying attention to Blogger last week could not have missed the two days that Google displayed Twitter Favicons. April 2009 the rumor was that Google was intent on buying Twitter no matter what the cost and with Facebook now having more daily traffic than Google it makes sense that Google finally made the move into Social Networking.
We announced in 2008 that Google Profiles appeared to be the first level stages of Social Networking for Google Users with 'friends' and 'Followers' connected to user profiles, photos, blogs and other items. Expect Google to announce the purchase of Twitter soon and make sure you let everyone know where you heard it first!
Robert 'Dot Com' Jackson
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