Digital Prank

There has been rumors for a long time about Google’s plan to buy Twitter, which is feared to pose a threat to the search engine giant with its wonderfully poised real time search capabilities. Today Google boss Eric Schmidt put an end to everything calling Twitter as a “poor man’s email”. Speaking to Morgan Stanley’s technology conference at SFO, he praised twitters success and also said the micro-blogging service was not particularly useful and one cannot compare the 140 character limit with twitter cannot be compared with the capabilities of an email service.

Eric Schmidt also said,

"In other words, they have aspects of an email system, but they don’t have a full offering. To me, the question about companies like Twitter is: Do they fundamentally evolve as sort of a note phenomenon, or do they fundamentally evolve to have storage, revocation, identity, and all the other aspects that traditional email systems have? Or do email systems themselves broaden what they do to take on some of that characteristic?

I think the innovation is great. In Google’s case, we have a very successful instant messaging product, and that’s what most people end up using.

Twitter’s success is wonderful, and I think it shows you that there are many, many new ways to reach and communicate, especially if you are willing to do so publicly."

I am not quite sure with micro-blogging services and communities are gaining more popularity how this is gonna hurt them. I leave it to you guyz.