Mega-hyped micro-blogging service insists it doesn't want to be bought as it quests for a business model.
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone has told Reuters that his company is not looking to merge with, or be bought by, a third party.Instead, it is seeking partnerships - Google is mentioned in the article - in order to work out how it can start making some money this year, probably through advertising.
The Twitter service allows users to send 140 character messages to their 'followers', either from their desktop computer or using SMS from their phone.
It has left scores of media companies trying to work our how, if at all, they can jump on the bandwagon, and firms like Google and Facebook apparently worried about its impact on their own business.
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