Google 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.
twitter error FTW!!!
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
$100M? I thought google paid $12M for jaiku.
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.
@AW
I wouldn’t care. I just want their money.
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.
a $100M deal for Jaiku?? You sure??
Google wasted a great opportunity to promote Jaiku.
#5: What if by “your company,” he was merely referring to the company you happen to work for?
This has been around for a while, too…
http://politweets.com/
Less fancy, just as fun.
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.
I think pownce is nuch better than twitter
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!
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.
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.)
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.
Why didn’t you report that the actual mash-up is boring, uninteresting and non useful in the least?
Anyone think the Microhoo activity could spur Google - Salesforce action?
Nice going twitter/Google!
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?
Jaiku is a non-starter, because “jaiku” is meaningless:
8 http://dictionary.com/search?q=twitter
vs.
0 http://dictionary.com/search?q=jaiku