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(Sex Poodle) Al Gore Tried To Buy Twitter By Getting Its Founders Drunk On Wine And Patron Tequila
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| 10/09/13
| The Cajun Boy
Posted on 10/09/2013 4:48:32 PM PDT by Libloather
The New York Times today published a story online by Nick Bilton about Twitter’s early days that’ll be in the paper’s Sunday magazine. The piece by Bilton, a Times tech reporter and the author of a book on the founding of Twitter, contains a slew of interesting tidbits, but the things I found most amusing were the tidbits about the people who tried to buy Twitter in its early days.
Al Gore pitched Williams and Stone one night over copious amounts of wine and Patron tequila at his St. Regis suite in San Francisco. Steve Ballmer, the chief executive of Microsoft, approached Williams during a private dinner at Bill Gates’s home.
According to Forbes’ Jeff Bercovici, Gore’s plan was to merge Twitter with Current TV to try to make it more attractive for acquisition by Apple or Google.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: algore; tequila; twitter; wine
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Just as long as they didn't bend over...
To: Libloather
“Hey Boys, interested in a massage?”
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posted on
10/09/2013 4:50:10 PM PDT
by
mojito
(Zero, our Nero.)
To: Libloather
Did Gore warm their globes?
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posted on
10/09/2013 4:52:08 PM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(If global warming exists I hope it is strong enough to reverse the Big Government snowball)
To: Libloather
Tells me that conservatives have an effective social media beachhead in twitter.
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posted on
10/09/2013 4:52:51 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Libloather
What a classy guy, the Algore.
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posted on
10/09/2013 4:53:25 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
To: Libloather
“RELEASE MY SECOND CHAKRA”
To: Libloather
He probably figured if he owned Twitter he could get laid
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posted on
10/09/2013 4:54:18 PM PDT
by
bigbob
To: Travis McGee
What a classy guy, the Algore.
When he’s full of wine and tequila, he’s a blast.
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posted on
10/09/2013 4:55:27 PM PDT
by
laplata
(Liberals don't get it .... their minds are diseased.)
To: Libloather
twitter is run / staffed by a lot of homos
bending over might have helped seal the deal
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posted on
10/09/2013 4:57:10 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: cripplecreek
they don’t. it’s all Folsom street regulars
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posted on
10/09/2013 4:58:05 PM PDT
by
sten
(fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
To: Libloather
I guess they didn’t experience a Happy Ending....
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posted on
10/09/2013 4:59:02 PM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: Libloather
Al Gorp is the most ignorant, disgusting and ill deserving multi-millionaire ever to walk this planet. He owes his wealth to politics despite being the son of a proven devout democrat racist.......
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:00:47 PM PDT
by
Hot Tabasco
(Ms. Muffett suffered from arachnophobia)
To: Libloather
Wonder what his partner, Joel Hyatt, thought about that. BUT maybe that’s algore’s MO.
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:03:46 PM PDT
by
Polyxene
(Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
To: sten
The aforementioned founders Williams and Stone. I'm sure they're straight...
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:06:00 PM PDT
by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: Paladin2
Something was warming - but it wasn’t the planet.
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:06:13 PM PDT
by
Libloather
(The epitome of civility.)
To: Libloather
Wine and tequila? That sounds even worse than Sneaky Pete, made by mixing
beer, gin and wine.
To: mgstarr
Actually, they both have wives and children.
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:16:19 PM PDT
by
x
To: x
I stand corrected. But it was hard to tell from that one photo.
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:23:53 PM PDT
by
mgstarr
("Some of us drink because we're not poets." Arthur (1981))
To: mgstarr; x
I’M WITH YOU- the photo is very misleading if that is true
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posted on
10/09/2013 5:32:41 PM PDT
by
Mr. K
(Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
To: Libloather
Is there such a medical condition called agorephobia?
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posted on
10/09/2013 6:09:23 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(IÂ’m not a Republican, I'm a Conservative! Pubbies haven't been conservative since before T.R.)
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