Es gibt aktuell Stimmen in der einschlägigen US-Szene, die es für durchaus möglich erachten, dass Twitter's Jack Dorsey einen Merger mit der Bezahl-Plattform "Square" vorantreibt. Was klarerweise ein richtiges Brett wäre.
>>>>> If Dorsey merged Square and Twitter he’d have a vertically integrated retail machine with phenomenal reach and power. For instance:
1) Integrate Square’s payment technology so your twitter handle becomes a payment account — send and receive payments instantly and for free with anyone
2) Allow purchasing for any business that has a Twitter account (i.e. almost every business)
3) Offer Square’s retailers and merchandise producers one of the world’s largest audience of wealthy, educated people
One of the massive screw-ups Twitter originally made was not recognising that a user’s Twitter handle had the potential to become one of main primary keys of the Internet. Facebook did and with their comprehensive API and their ‘Login with Facebook’ feature put themselves front and centre for most internet users. Twitter missed this completely and eventually shutdown their API — total disaster which arguably they’ve never recovered from.
By merging Square and Twitter Dorsey would put Twitter’s handle right back into play, making it the centre of a huge payment / business platform. <<<<<
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I have long agreed that Twitter has underachieved as a financial protocol.
If Jack could make that happen and get more out of Twitter as a way to monetize ideas (send money, make trades, pick fantasy teams), not just throw ads at bad content, the combined companies could be worth $100 billion.
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