On June 18, according to foreign reports, Microsoft on Monday announced a $ 26.2 billion acquisition of professional social networking site LinkedIn messages, once-hot Web 2.0 big three only Facebook and Twitter. Apart from the purple Facebook is still hot, are now troubled Twitter takeover is only a matter of time.

Internet investment firm SunTrust Robinson Humphrey analyst luobote·paike (Robert Peck) said in an interview with the New York Times on Friday, as long as the social networking market to continue at their current pace, inevitable Twitter takeover . The analyst does not talk about social network marketing current trends and possible changes in the future.

Prior to Parker's published comments, Microsoft has announced that it will buy LinkedIn. Microsoft, LinkedIn will continue to operate independently, except that it will, in conjunction with Microsoft, including Office 365 Dynamics of integration, customer relationship management services. LinkedIn CEO jiefu·weina (Jeff Weiner) also said that the deal to make LinkedIn more massive growth.

If Microsoft's successful acquisition of LinkedIn,Twitter will become one of the few well-known social network has not been acquired. Remove change as the world's largest social-networking site Facebook in addition to almost all famous social networking site has been acquired in the past few years, they include MySpace, YouTube, Tumblr, and so on. Instagram founded even after Twitter, have also been acquired.

The reason why Twitter has not bought by other companies is still unknown. Earlier rumours that acquired Instagram and YouTube Facebook and Google, respectively, previously both had been interested in Twitter, but eventually abandoned the deal. Also reported that several media companies wishing to extend content ownership have also considered the issue of acquisition of Twitter, but without any context.

Twitter really has any problems? Remove when market analysts have been concerned about the company will be profitable in addition toTwitter's revenue growth has begun to slow, and in attracting new users ran into trouble. The first quarter of this year, Twitter's revenue reached $ 594.5 million, net loss was still as high as $ 79.7 million.

Meanwhile, investors are increasingly concerned that Twitter can turn things around. In fact, the company's share price has fallen in the past year almost 54%. Although LinkedIn didn't turn a profit, but the company owns what Microsoft wants: Connecting business users.

Eventually, Twitter needs to find its own path of development. Although Twitter has been argued to be independent development and recovery for business, but the company was unable to deny that met with great resistance to this fact. According to Friday's closing price, Twitter could fetch about $ 11.2 billion, for rich buyers, the price is relatively cheap.

What kind of companies may buy Twitter? Analyst Pike believes that Google Alphabet is the most likely buyer of the parent company. But the analysts also believe that deal to buy Twitter appears only in 2017 at the earliest.

6月18日消息，据外电报道，在微软本周一宣布斥资262亿美元收购职业社交网站LinkedIn的消息之后，曾经火热的Web 2.0三巨头只剩下了Facebook和Twitter。除依旧热的发紫的Facebook之外，如今已陷入困境的Twitter被收购只是时间的问题。

投资公司SunTrust Robinson Humphrey互联网分析师罗伯特·派克（Robert Peck）周五在接受《纽约时报》采访时就表示，只要社交网络市场继续保持当前的步调，Twitter被收购就不可避免。该分析师并未谈到社交网络市场现有的趋势，以及未来可能出现的变化。

在派克发表这番评论之前，微软已宣布将收购LinkedIn。微软表示，LinkedIn将继续独立运营，只不过它将会同微软包括Office 365、客户关系管理服务Dynamics等进行整合。LinkedIn首席执行官杰夫·维纳(Jeff Weiner)也表示，此交易能够让LinkedIn更大规模的成长。

如果微软成功收购LinkedIn，Twitter将成为为数不多仍未被收购的知名社交网络。除去变身为全球最大社交网站的Facebook之外，几乎所有知名的社交网站在过去几年中都已被收购，它们当中包括了MySpace、YouTube、Tumblr等。即便是在Twitter之后创办的Instagram，也已被收购。

Twitter为何迟迟未被其他公司收购的原因仍不得而知。此前曾有传闻称，分别收购了Instagram和YouTube的Facebook和谷歌，此前均曾有意收购Twitter，但最终都放弃了这一交易。还有报道称，若干家希望扩展内容所有权的媒体公司也曾考虑过收购Twitter的问题，但也无任何下文。

Twitter到底出现了什么问题？除去市场分析师一直关注的这家公司何时能够盈利之外，Twitter的营收增速已开始放缓，且在吸引新用户上遇到了不小的麻烦。今年第一季度，Twitter的营收达到5.945亿美元，但净亏损依旧高达7970万美元。

与此同时，投资人越来越担心Twitter能否扭转乾坤。事实上，该公司股价在过去一年中累计下跌了近54%。虽然LinkedIn也没有实现盈利，但这家公司拥有微软想要得到的东西：连接商业用户。

最终，Twitter需要找到自己的发展道路。尽管Twitter一直辩解称能够独立发展并让业务实现复苏，但这家公司却无力否认遇到了非常大的阻力这一事实。按照周五的收盘价计算，Twitter市值约为112亿美元，对于财大气粗的收购方而言这一收购价格已相对的便宜。

什么样的公司可能会收购Twitter？分析师派克认为，谷歌母公司Alphabet是最可能的收购方。不过该分析师也认为，收购Twitter的交易最早也要在2017年才会出现。