Google acquiring Twitter is actually the best end result here. Salesforce is probably the worst. Lots of people hate the idea of a Google acquisition, but I think it's well suited because:
- Google learnt from its mistakes with Google+ and is eager to not repeat them
- The company is a very different one now from years ago
- Google doesn't want to mess up identity again, so that wouldn't be an issue
- Google mostly just wants a social graph
- Twitter is a bad public company that makes irrational decisions
- Merging Google engineering/leadership with Twitter might actually give direction and ease the financial pressure that seems to drive the company's poor engineering decisions
- Google learnt from its mistakes with Google+ and is eager to not repeat them
- The company is a very different one now from years ago
- Google doesn't want to mess up identity again, so that wouldn't be an issue
- Google mostly just wants a social graph
- Twitter is a bad public company that makes irrational decisions
- Merging Google engineering/leadership with Twitter might actually give direction and ease the financial pressure that seems to drive the company's poor engineering decisions