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Al Gore tried to buy Twitter-- by getting the owners drunk
« on: October 18, 2013, 02:14:17 am »
http://money.cnn.com/2013/10/17/technology/social/al-gore-twitter/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

by David Goldman
October 17, 2013

The former vice president told Bloomberg Television on Thursday that he and former Current TV co-founder Joel Hyatt tried to buy Twitter.

Gore's interest in purchasing Twitter was first reported by The New York Times' Nick Bilton in his just-released book "Hatching Twitter."

In the book, Bilton described a drunken scene at the St. Regis hotel in San Francisco in 2009, during which Gore met with Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone, pouring "copious amounts of wine and Patron tequila."

Alas, it was not to be.

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Re: Al Gore tried to buy Twitter-- by getting the owners drunk
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2013, 02:19:02 am »
Thank goodness....
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