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Salesforce feels like a bizarre choice, although I agree with their digital chief that "I love Twitter" personally.

I use twitter every day as my primary method of content discovery.

So at their core the BUSINESS should revolve around monetizing my eyeballs, eg advertising.

So to me it's Facebook or Google that should grab it, w/FB at the lead considering their relatively smooth / unhurried / and successful takeovers of whatsapp / instagram

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Salesforce has this weird hosted private social network called Chatter. It's closer to facebook statuses than twitter.

I'm not if there really could be a tie in, but one thought is that if a company could take an internal chatter post and promote it to public, that public post could be spread via twitter.

They could already do this using Twitter's API. Seems like a stretch of a reason to buy Twitter.

Perhaps there's some back end tech, talent that would be useful for tackling Salesforces problems.

There are quite a few former SFDC employees who left for Twitter, so maybe it's a grand scheme to get them back...

Salesforce's back end is AWS. They ran their own cloud for a while, but ditched it.

Incorrect.

O RLY??

http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2016/06/03/salesforce_aws_m...

http://trust.salesforce.com/trust/instances

These are all running in SFDC datacenters.

Things are in flux, but the original statement that it's in AWS now is still incorrect. The core app (and some acquired apps) is/are still on their own gear. Moving everything from their hosting environment to AWS (if that's even what is planned) would take many years.

Not yet. I believe they will be using AWS to serve Australia and/or Brazil. That or offer completely new service built on AWS, given $400m contract. Heroku runs on AWS, but its hardly integrated with SFDC.

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