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February 5, 2008

Google Teams With Twitter For Super Tuesday Tracking

Duncan Riley

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error.jpgGoogle has teamed with Twitter to provide a Twitter/ Google mashup for Super Tuesday.

Tweets relating to Super Tuesday are overlaid on a Google Map, along with other data including YouChoose ‘08 videos, Google News election headlines and primary state results. The site is live here. Google is also offering gadgets with the results as they come in.

Google has tracked big events before in a similar fashion to this, but what’s different here is the tie-in with Twitter. Google acquired Twitter rival Jaiku in October, and we haven’t heard much about Jaiku since, aside from some intermittent reports that the service was stagnating under Google and that users were switching to Twitter. Could this new deal be a recognition by Google that Twitter is where it’s at, its $100 million buy of Jaiku aside? Or was Jaiku simply another tech buy that will be merged into Android and cease to be a Twitter competitor? (Jaiku had a strong mobile platform on top of being simply a Twitter clone.)

Lets hope that either Twitter’s new hosting Verio can handle the traffic, or Google has lent Twitter some server space, otherwise by about 9-10pm EST tonight as solid results start coming through, the only thing we might see on the mashup is an error message similar to the one top right in this post.

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  1. HGuide

    February 5th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

    twitter error FTW!!!

  2. Drew Houston

    February 5th, 2008 at 12:38 pm

    favorite part of the pic is the torrent site in the background (look closely…”Adobe.CS3.Web.Premium…HOTiSO”) and the adobe product getting jacked :)

  3. Daniel Gibbons

    February 5th, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    $100M? I thought google paid $12M for jaiku.

  4. AW

    February 5th, 2008 at 12:51 pm

    Ai ai ai…

    Wouldn’t that suck? Selling your company to Google or Yahoo and they just let it sit there… to stagnate… and ultimately to suck ass.

    That’s why I don’t think I could sell a company to a big player like that without some kind of commitment that they will try to make sure t he company doesn’t suck ass in the future.

  5. HGuide

    February 5th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    @AW

    I wouldn’t care. I just want their money.

  6. dm

    February 5th, 2008 at 1:07 pm

    I know a ton of people who use both Jaiku and Twitter, which is odd to me considering they are essentially the same thing.

    Twitter must be under consideration as an acquisition target.

  7. iLan

    February 5th, 2008 at 1:09 pm

    a $100M deal for Jaiku?? You sure??

  8. techmine

    February 5th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

    Google wasted a great opportunity to promote Jaiku.

  9. EH

    February 5th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    #5: What if by “your company,” he was merely referring to the company you happen to work for?

  10. karl

    February 5th, 2008 at 1:48 pm

    This has been around for a while, too…

    http://politweets.com/

    Less fancy, just as fun.

  11. Noah Everett

    February 5th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

    Yeah lets hope they can handle the traffic.

    I just released http://twitpic.com which lets you share photos on twitter, which may be useful for purposes like super tuesday.

  12. fizetés + állás

    February 5th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    I think pownce is nuch better than twitter

  13. Craig Baker

    February 5th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    WTF $100 mil for Jaiku. What does that mean Google will pay $1 billion for Twitter, I don’t think so.

    Google should run a Tab with Evan, they can just count the startups purchased and settle at the end of each year!

  14. Tara Kelly

    February 5th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

    Pownce better than Twitter? I don’t know. Haven’t tried it, but love twitter.

    And weird dumb luck… my husband went to check out the Google/Twitter/SuperTuesday site and saw what I had just tweeted in the other room:

    http://tinyurl.com/3xfhpf

    Longest possible route between 2 people in the same house.

  15. Aadaam

    February 5th, 2008 at 4:07 pm

    Jaiku never was a clone, it simply does other thing: it has multiple sources of different eventing information.

    Just like search and communication isn’t on the same market, I wouldn’t say that a lifestream application is a clone of a social chat application.

    (Social chat: where you’re chatting on a social network instead of a room.)

  16. webmonkey

    February 5th, 2008 at 4:30 pm

    Mark is pretty late to the news here. Skewz.com has been around for a while. TechCrunch is really not too up on things these days.

  17. Brad Flora

    February 5th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

    Why didn’t you report that the actual mash-up is boring, uninteresting and non useful in the least?

  18. Trick

    February 5th, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    Anyone think the Microhoo activity could spur Google - Salesforce action?

  19. Joseph

    February 5th, 2008 at 11:26 pm

    Nice going twitter/Google!

  20. Patrick Lord

    February 6th, 2008 at 12:31 am

    I heard from reliable sources that Jaiku was bought for more like between $5-$15 million which also fits with commentary (again from reliable sources) that Jaiku was acquired more for its team than anything else. Where did you get this 100m figure from?

  21. nmw

    February 6th, 2008 at 3:49 am

    Jaiku is a non-starter, because “jaiku” is meaningless:

    8 http://dictionary.com/search?q=twitter

    vs.

    0 http://dictionary.com/search?q=jaiku

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