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PREFACE
Twitter Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) today announced on its blog, penned by CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey, that it has acquired Magic Pony Technology. That move may have made the company yet more attractive as a takeover candidate for Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL). Mr. Dorsey describes the company as "a London-based technology company that has developed novel machine learning techniques for visual processing."




While the move is shrewd in that it strengthens Twitter's competitive stance against all things Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB), it has another piece to it, which is just too much fun not to examine.

BREAKING
First, here's what Jack Dorsey wrote:


Of course, the company that is really pouring resources into artificial intelligence and machine learning is Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG). We recently penned an article, "You Won't Believe What Google is Doing With Artificial Intelligence" that described the mad dash Alphabet Inc. is making toward AI. Here are a few snippets:


The article referenced above pours over Alphabet's numerous new offerings and the way it will use artificial intelligence to revolutionize its product line, and most importantly, its ecosystem of Search. Now, with Twitter's move toward more machine learning, we just have to talk about the possibility of an acquisition.

WILL ALPHABET INC. BUY TWITTER INC.
After Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26 billion, a 50% premium to the closing price, rumors (again) swirled that Twitter Inc. would be a takeover candidate next. While the discussion of which firm could acquire Twitter surfaced, there's one company that is the obvious best fit.

Alphabet Inc. has a partnership with Twitter that drives billions of impressions a day on tweets through Google Search. Tweets have been given special placement on Google Search and the latest data we have reads that over 90% of Google searches turn up tweets as a part of the search algorithm.

The massive influx of impressions on Twitter's micro blogs have driven the news that, while Twitter reports 310 million logged in monthly average users (MAUs), it has a additional 500 million visitors every month that don't have accounts.

In fact, we just published the note "Twitter Stuns Wall Street" which detailed how Twitter has now turned advertising on for those additional 500 million people which could lead to a 60% boost in advertising revenue per the latest news from the company's COO Adam Bain.

Alphabet of course is famously known for its failed Google Plus social media, although it is trying again with a different flavor. And, Google Photos turned out to be a tremendous success. A social addition to that service could be a serious threat to Facebook's Instagram.

The purpose behind an Alphabet acquisition of Twitter runs deep and complex and we outlined it in our seminal dossier "Google Will Buy Twitter," written ten months ago. For now, the Twitter move into AI and machine learning is smart for the company, and adds a little more flavor to a possible Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) combination.

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Thanks for reading, friends. The author is long Apple shares in his personal account.