At Rob’s urging, I’ve put together some of the Twitter posts (no, I will not call them “tweets”) that came through my Twitter client this morning related to the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. Got any others? Email me.<\/p>\n
@stuartma<\/strong>: Studebaker buys Edsel.<\/p>\n @rhh<\/strong>: if anything, we’re going to get an object lesson now in the true cost of strategic intransigence.<\/p>\n @pkedrosky<\/strong>: @kteare “if msft were to succeed”? if this deal doesn’t happen both company’s shareholders will beat them with sticks until it does.<\/p>\n @ev<\/strong>: My answer to reporter: Has putting two behemoths together ever, in the history of corporations, resulted in greatness?<\/p>\n @pkedrosky<\/strong>: @ev well, don’t forget The Traveling Wilburys. They merged and did some good stuff. Oooh, you mean public companies. Nevermind \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n @davemc500hats<\/strong>: @ev: how about ebay+paypal. or Yahoo+Overture\/Inktomi?<\/p>\n @ev<\/strong>: @davemc500hats good point. but both companies were way more focused than YHOO or MSN. also, not quite “behemoths” — although, perhaps YHOO doesn’t qualify either.<\/p>\n @rhh<\/strong>: By the time MSFT swallows YHOO, GOOG will not be the company it was trying to compete with. It’s going to spend too much time chewing.<\/p>\n @waxpancake: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like tying the Titanic to the iceberg. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d keep you from sinking just long enough to freeze to death.<\/p>\n — and from the rest of the Twitterverse (via Terraminds):<\/em><\/p>\n @pandapoo<\/strong>: OMG! Microsoft Just Bought Yahoo! which bought Flickr which now makes me a Microsoft user!? YUCK! I feel dirty.<\/p>\n @spdemac<\/strong>: If MS and Yahoo merge, their search will be know as “Microwho?”. Small, forgettable and unused.<\/p>\n @andymelton<\/strong>: Well, maybe Yahoo can teach Microsoft a thing or two. I just hope Flickr doesn’t get destroyed. I love Flickr.<\/p>\n @cageyjames<\/strong>: As long as Microsoft doesn’t touch Flickr, Yahoo! Sports and Yahoo! Finance, I have no problems with them ripping Yahoo! apart.<\/p>\n @nep<\/strong>: I felt good about Flickr having my photos, OK about Yahoo having my photos, but bad about Microsoft having my photos.<\/p>\n @retrophisch<\/strong>: Microsoft acquiring Yahoo…this is a joke, right? RIGHT?!!?!?<\/p>\n @lgpiper<\/strong>: I bet Bill Gates uses Google. Can’t find crap with MS search. Yahoo isn’t much better. Suck + suck = Suck^2<\/p>\n @jimlindley<\/strong>: Microsoft and Yahoo, sitting in a tree – F A I L I N G. Microsoft is going to choke on Yahoo and die. I hope. @midasjohn<\/strong>: WARNING EVERYONE: Microsoft taking over Yahoo marks DOOMSDAY in many respects. You remember Dick Jones @ OCP ? [ed: RoboCop reference]<\/p>\n @zacechola<\/strong>: Yahoo accepts Microsoft offer, joins forces with Time Warner and entire recording industry: Forms League of Evil. Google readies laser guns.<\/p>\n @twoluvcats<\/strong>: true: “If Yahoo agrees to the deal with Microsoft, it will be a shotgun marriage, but it will be Google holding the shotgun.”<\/p>\n
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\n@quackking<\/strong>: highly skeptical of M$ being able to ‘get it’ via a Yahoo buy. @ev has it right.<\/p>\n