October 17th, 2013
03:02 PM ET
9 years ago
Al Gore tried to buy Twitter
New York (CNNMoney) - Al Gore may not have invented the Internet, but he did try to buy one of its most popular social networks.
The former vice president told Bloomberg Television on Thursday that he and former Current TV co-founder Joel Hyatt tried to buy Twitter.
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Joel Hyatt and Al Gore...what cool combination. Just for trivia's sake, Joel Hyatt is the son-in-law of the late great Ohio senator, Howard Metzenbaum.
This isn't political news. It's investment news. Twitter is a good investment. Story over.
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This isn't political news. It's investment news. Twitter is a good investment. Story over.
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Good investment? Since when? It's never turned a profit in its' entire history.
Buy it? I thought he invented it!
"This isn't political news. It's investment news. Twitter is a good investment. Story over.
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Good investment? Since when? It's never turned a profit in its' entire history."
Really? Maybe I was confusing it with something else then...altho I bet it still looked like a good investment back in 2009 when this apparently happened. Someone's dropping the ball over there at Twitter haha.
"Al Gore may not have invented the Internet, but he did try to buy one of its most popular social networks."
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Al Gore introduced the legislation the defined the legal framework that allowed the government technology, then known as an information super highway, to become part of the public domain. The crucial part of the law is that it declares that no party can own, or restict, any part of it, and that it "shall remain in the public domain forever."
Al Gore? Please keep this guy out of news CNN. This guy just starves for attention. Go find manbearpig Al.
Al Gore tried to buy Twitter? So?