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Blogger on Twitter

Blogger started the revolution by enabling easy creation and publication of blogs, it was a revolution. Now the Blogger product team has opened its own account at Twitter, while this is interesting this just confirms that this space is too attractive to keep any one out, even Google.

Google has always been mocked at for not being actively part of Twitter or create platforms similar to Twitter. Many have started writing epithets for Google's search, some of the reasons are well made and well observed. It is time Google comes up with something else they may miss out something.

Check out an interesting discussion here


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