{"id":3835,"date":"2009-11-24T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3835"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:49:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:49:32","slug":"twitter-not-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/11\/24\/twitter-not-for-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Twitter not for sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3837\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/Twitter-icon-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Twitter icon\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says the social-networking site is looking to make more acqusitions, may eventually be taken public, and is definitely <a title=\"not for sale\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=newsarchive&amp;sid=aagrGPkp05O0\" target=\"_blank\">not for sale<\/a>.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"N. Venkat Venkatraman\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/VenkatramanN.html\" target=\"_blank\">N. Venkat Venkatraman<\/a>, head of the Information Systems Department, says he applauds Twitter for maintaining its independence.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;During 2009, Twitter has emerged as a serious and credible ways for social connections to become part of the economic landscape and I expect to see in 2010 the functionality become as central as search-engine optimization.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact N. Venkat Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, <a href=\"mailto:venkat@bu.edu\">venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says the social-networking site is looking to make more acqusitions, may eventually be taken public, and is definitely not for sale.\u00a0 School of Management Professor N. Venkat Venkatraman, head of the Information Systems Department, says he applauds Twitter for maintaining its independence. &#8220;During 2009, Twitter has emerged as a serious and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[241,644,366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3835"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8265,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3835\/revisions\/8265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}