Twitter Is Not For Sale, Says Co-Founder
On Wednesday, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told the audience of ABC’s “The View” that the micro-blogging firm is not for sale.
Barbara Walters asked Stone about ongoing rumors of a buyout bid from Google Inc, Microsoft Corp or Apple Inc.
Stone told Walters the answer to either of those scenarios was “no,” adding that Twitter is “just getting started.”
“The company is two years old, we have so much to do, so much product stuff to fix, and so much growing to do,” said Stone.
The company has turned down a high-profile takeover bid once before, when social networking giant Facebook offered $500 million to buy control of the micro-blogging site last November.
Apple is rumored to have made a $700 million cash bid for the company as well, according to technology blog TechCrunch.
Nielsen Online said that Twitter’s site had more than 7 million unique page views this February alone, compared to 475,000 in February of last year.
Also on Wednesday, Twitter’s Vice President of Operations, Santosh Jayaram said the site’s search engine will soon be able to index the text of Twitter posts in addition to the pages that Tweets link to.
Speaking before an entrepreneurs’ conference in California, Jayaram said Twitter would soon be making a more comprehensive index of how things are happening on the Web in real time while indexing the pages in similar fashion to Google.
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