Twitter Co-Founder Responds to Google Rumor -- Seeking Alpha

Here's an excerpt from an article on Seeking Alpha addressing the latest about the rumors about whether Google is interested in acquiring the whole tweety bird or if it just wants to utilize Twitters real-time feed to speed indexing.  Oh and while your here, if you'd like to follow this blog on Twitter (click graphic on left), we'd love to have ya!  - JBF

From Seeking Alpha

"My inbox is flooded this morning with requests for a response to the latest Internet speculation about where Twitter is headed," blogs Twitter Inc. co-founder Biz Stone in a post entitled "Sometimes we talk." It comes in response to a report Thursday night that Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is in talks to acquire the fast-growing microblogging service.

"It should come as no surprise that Twitter engages in discussions with other companies regularly and on a variety of subjects," continues Stone. "Our goal is to build a profitable, independent company and we're just getting started."

Sources close to Twitter tell The Deal the rumor of a potential "Twoogle" is without foundation.

TechCrunch co-editor Michael Arrington created quite a stir in the Twit-osphere when he posted a blog late Thursday saying, "Here's a heck of a rumor that we've sourced from two separate people close to the negotiations: Google is in late- stage negotiations to acquire Twitter."

In the middle of the night, another tech reporter blogged a different story.

"While the news that Google was in 'late-stage' talks to acquire Twitter, which TechCrunch reported last night, certainly sounds exciting, it isn't accurate in any way, according to a number of sources BoomTown spoke to close to the situation," blogged Kara Swisher, co-executive editor of AllThingsDigital, which publishes the BoomTown blog.

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