Google 'close' to buying Twitter

clipped from technology.timesonline.co.uk Google is rumoured to be close to buying Twitter, according to an influential technology blog. Google would have to pay well above the $250 million (£170 million) valuation of Twitter suggested by a recent round of venture capital funding. Google would benefit by developing its search offering, taking advantage of the real-time information provided by users of the micro-blogging site Twitter is attractive because it has built a service that attracts this much volume, creating a constantly growing, twitching, seething real-time source of comments, news and opinions. Twitter’s traffic in the US, excluding visitors using mobile phones, grew from 6.1 million unique users in January to nearly 9.8 million users in February.