Google has acquired Twitter's main rival

The official blog of the Finnish company Jaiku reports that today their project of the same name - the social network and microblogging Jaiku was acquired by Google (apparently along with the developer). For all progressive humanity, this means that Google has entered the microblogging market!

Microblogging is a young and actively gaining popularity of network communication, the first services of which appeared about a year ago. Now the most popular microblog is Twitter , launched in March 2006 by Obvious Corp. from San Francisco, but with the arrival of Google in this sector, the old balance of power may be upset. Probably, the choice of the Internet giant, which, if desired, could acquire Twitter itself, is due to numerous problems in the work of the latter. For stable work with a large audience, Twitter needs a restart on a new, more stable platform, and Google has taken a different path. He acquired the only Twitter alternative - Finnish startup Jaiku, which was purchased before the beta testing was completed. The Jaiku team does not deny that the partnership with Google has changed some of their plans. So, from this moment on the Jaiku microblogging, registration of new users is limited - the new development model strongly resembles Gmail. The number of invites will be limited, and users themselves will distribute them. Service Jaiku in the near future awaits modernization, the details of which were not disclosed. The most intriguing is the promise of Jaiku developers to present in the coming months a new project being developed jointly with Google. It is known only that it will be something completely new and mobile. A close look at Google’s gestures makes it easy to suspect that the company is preparing a platform for the gPhone .



PS A limited number of invites are distributed at this link .

PPS Habrahabr channel on Jaiku.