it reminds me of another deal from another era, aol and netscape. ace where you retire peacefully, and soon you are forgotten. emily: is that good for twitter, josh? josh: twitter would need to continue to operate as a mostly independent company, and google would need to kill google plus. they would need to get that product out of the way and put any resources they can into something like twitter, which is thriving in many ways, but it's not growing at the pace like facebook. frankly, it may never get there. twitter is more like a public service then it is a social network, in my mind. emily: what about these other things sacca is talking about, having human editors curate tweets? there are 500 million tweets a day. is it possible for humans to curate that? om: you have to parse what chris is saying. it's an 8500-word memo. if you look at what he's saying he is saying human interactions -- right now, there are only two or three ways to interact. you can either retweet it and share it, or you can like it. those are the three interactions you have with