Facebook, Twitter, and the Convergence of Messaging

Posted on November 27, 2008. Filed under: Industry Themes | Tags: convergence, Facebook, instant messaging, messaging, SMS, Twitter, Web 2.0, wireless |

Lots of chatter about Twitter being offered $500MM by Facebook.  Some think Twitter is crazy not to take it, while many others correctly point out that $500MM is not $500MM if it’s in stock.  While Facebook may hold out the Microsoft $15 billion valuation (an artificial auction given how strategically important the advertising deal was [...]