With the IBM and Sun deal we wrote about a few weeks ago now reported to be very close to happening (any minute now…), rumors are starting to swirl about another (somewhat sexier) acquisition:

according to rumor…   google may want twitter

(…and stay tuned for some interesting antitrust issues with the IBM deal - I put the likelihood that one or more parts of Sun end up getting spun off in the process at about 50-50)