Will the sale of Twitter affect users?

In a week in which we do not stop listening to potential buyers from Twitter, we always ask ourselves something. Will Twitter change with different owners? Those of us who are everyday users of this social network do not really care who is the one who pockets the euros. What we are interested at least it is keep working as before. Of course, improvements and news are always welcome.

Between the many potential buyers, as we told you, he would find Disney. What the social network could use to include, we do not yet know in what way, its own content. I honestly don't see Mickey Mouse as a Twitter image. I would lose in seriousness and professionalism I think.  

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These and many other questions are in the air. The dizzying dance of figures that are shuffled in this transaction leaves no one indifferent. The amount would be around 8 or 10 billion dollars. Amount that almost triples what was initially spoken of as the company's value. Billions in the air that the majority of users do not care.

The important thing for us users is the end of the story. And above all the result that it will have on the social network. We refer to the changes that Twitter could undergo depending on who takes the cat to the water. As we know, In the bid there are also giants like Google or Facebook. Both with great experience in social networks, not in vain do they have their own. But with different projection and success.

Nobody is convinced by a merger of Facebook with Twitter.

Lots of Twitter users are also Facebook users. But almost everyone agrees that neither could replace the other. Rather they complement each other. There are those who use Twitter and do not use Facebook and vice versa. But the vast majority alternate them daily. One of the big unknowns in this whole process is whether Facebook would absorb Twitter.

One thing would be the absorption of Twitter by Facebook, if the former disappeared. And another option would be to merge both social networks into one. Creating a strange hybrid that we don't know what result it would get. Neither case convinces users. Possible cases these if Facebook won the bid.

It seems that the best option would be the co-existence of both social networks separately. As up to now. But a movement like the one we are discussing could happen even if almost no one likes it. In the brief history that social networks have in ours, there is already a history of sales with dire results.

Who does not remember Tuenti?

For many Tuenti meant access to the world of social networks, even before Facebook. A social network that at the end of the year two thousand and six saw the light in Spain. And that very soon it became absolutely necessary in order to "be" in the world. In an age group between eighteen and thirty-something everyone had a Tuenti account.

In 2009 Google classified Tuenti as the third website with the highest increase in searches in the world. The following year, Tuenti became the most visited website in Spain. In 2011, approximately fifteen percent of Spanish Internet traffic passed through Tuenti. This involved traffic superior to what Google and Facebook supposed together.

Nothing augured an end like the one that happened. In August two thousand and ten, Telefónica became the largest shareholder in Tuenti. Thanks to the acquisition of 85% percent of its shares for about 70 million euros. In 2012 presents a «new» Tuenti, with an application called Tuenti Social Messenger, and its international openness. What a resounding failure and the loss of most of its users.

Tuenti today it survives reinvented as a low-cost telephone company. Is this the future that awaits Twitter?. Although both social networks are not comparable due to the greater reach of Twitter. Time has taught us how something that triumphs on its own can crash at the hands of others. Let's hope that Tuenti serves as an example so that history does not repeat itself and that Twitter survives as it is up to now.