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Google plus Twitter equals a motherlode of fodder

By JOHN MURRELL

If you were all prepared to dazzle your cubicle mates this morning with some insightful analysis of the reportedly imminent IBM acquisition of Sun Microsystems, you might want to shift gears, because the deal they'll be talking about is Google's rumored interest in Twitter. Late Thursday, TechCrunch reported it had two separate sources saying the search sovereign was in "late stage negotiations" to acquire the microblogging phenomenon, later supplemented by a third source saying the talks were actually in an early stage and included other partnering possibilities. Kara Swisher's sources checked in later to describe the contacts between the company as "very preliminary" discussions about real-time search and "product stuff."

That is where the facts, such as they are, end, but it still serves as the jumping-off point for a spate of speculation, in which you are welcome to join. To hold your own in the watercooler chatter, here are some points on which you may want to develop an opinion:

* Would this be the right move for Google to extend its hegemony and monetizing magic into real-time search of the conversational stream?

* What's the value of Twitter as a strategic acquisition ($500 million? a billion?), and might we see a bidding a war?

* Would Twitter and its investors be better off staying independent for now, riding its momentum and developing its potential?

* And finally, what would such a deal mean for designer Douglas Bowman, who just recently stalked away from Google, citing philosophical differences, and hired on as creative director at Twitter.

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