1 - Twitter is very worried about Facebook.

2 - Google wants to do a Twitter search deal very badly.

3 - Twitter does not want to be acquired.

4 - Twitter planned an IPO or sale of the company next year.

5 - Twitter doesn’t know how it’s going to make money.

6 - Microsoft is an unlikely Twitter-buyer and partner.

7 - Twitter execs prefer Tweetie on the iPhone and prefer Photobucket’s TwitGoo over TwitPic.

8 - Twitter is not content to become a small, profitable company.

9 - Twitter is shopping for other startups.

10 - Twitter execs fear the startup is understaffed.

From Tech Crunch, via Business Insider.

Social media occupies so much of our everyday lives why not acknowledge them this Halloween? Here are some great ideas!

1- Balloon Boy
It’s a cool way to get your hoax on this Halloween season a la Falcon Heene, the little boy that caused Twitter and its trending topics to go into overdrive for 2 full days (October 15-16).

2- Facebook
Take a cardboard poster, add your Facebook profile and you not only have a quick and easy costume, you might pick up an extra Facebook friend or two when you’re out trick and treating!

3- Ted.me
Dress up like Ted.me. I don’t know if his ‘personal’ brand is widely known outside of social media circles, but Ted Murphy consistently dons this same attire every time he appears or speaks at social media gathering such as SXSW.

4- The Socially-Connected, Plugged-In Couple
Here are two costumes that both you and your significant-other can wear to show off your social-connectivity.

5- Ashton Kutcher, King of All Social Media
If you want to show up this Halloween as a Kutcher impostor, all you have to do is obtain a crown from Burger King, slap on a printed Kutcher photo and your in business.

6- Social Bookmarking (See photo above)
Digg, Technorati, StumbleUpon, etc are services that allow us to bookmark a lot of what we read and digest today. This sandwich board not only gives them a nod, it actually adds a Halloween treatment to each one of their logos.

7- “Show Us Your Tweets”
A little racy, but doable.

8- Pete Cashmore Pumpkin Head
Pete Cashmore of Mashable was photographed wearing this pumpkin head last year. It’s one of the easiest Social Media Halloween costumes to assemble since it only requires a cut-out pumpkin head and a Pete Cashmore name badge - and voila, you are now the instant founder of one of the top Social Media Blogs in the world.

9- Miley “I Quit Twitter” Cyrus
For all you Miley Cyrus teens out there who sympathize with Hannah Montana’s dilemma of “I’m getting too much attention, so I have to exit Twitter,” you can easily sport some look-alike garb to show you are a fan and possibly an ex-Twitterer yourself!

10- Fail Whale
For anyone who has spent anytime on Twitter, you know how many times you might experience down-time with your buddy, the Fail Whale. This one would take a lot of material to construct, but if you start now, I’m sure you’ll be able meet the Halloween October 31st deadline.

1- Martin Luther King Jr
2- Albert Einstien
3- Marie Curie
4- Sir Alexander Fleming
5- Francis Crick, James D Watson, and Maurice Wilkins
6- Hermann Joseph Muller
7- Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger
8- Sir Clive Granger
9- Jean-Paul Sartre
10- Rudyard Kipling

According to The Leader.com

1. Apple iPhone 3GS
2. T-mobile myTouch 3G
3. Eye-Fi
4. Pogoplug
5. Xbox 360
6. Flip Mino
7. Squeezebox
8. INQ Phones
9. Ooma Hub
10. Roku Player

According to Mashable.com

1) iPod
2) Graphical User Interface
3) iMac
4) iTunes
5) Mac OS X
6) iPhone
7) Newton
8) Apple II
9) Keynotes
10) MacBook Air

According to the Telegraph.co.uk

1. You
2. Bloggers
3. Celebrities Using Twitter
4. Fred Figglehorn
5. Perez Hilton
6. Soulja Boy
7. Chris Crocker
8. brokeNCYDE
9. Rick Astley
10. Tila Tequila

According to Spike.com

1. Yahoo Loses Facebook
2. Real Networks Punts on the iPod
3. Sony and Toshiba Agree to Disagree Over HD
4. Digital Research: The Other Microsoft
5. Xerox Goes in an Alto Direction
6. Recording Industry Plays the Same Old Tune
7. Compuserve Blows Its Chance to Dominate the Net
8. Newspapers Fail to Read the Writing on the Wall–Craigslist
9. The Google Before Google
10. Microsoft Saves a Rotting Apple

According to PCWorld.com

1. Intelligence
2. Learn about different people and places
3. Water Cooler effect
4. Laughter
5. How-To
6. Excitement
7. Educational and Informative
8. Memory
10. Gives families something to bond over

According to Connect with Your Teens through Pop Culture and Technology.

1.Michael Arrington - Blogger/publisher, TechCrunch.com
2.Steve Ballmer – CEO, Microsoft Inc
3.Jeff Bezos – Chairman and CEO, Amazon.com
4.Sergey Brin – President and Co-Founder, Larry Page – Co-Founder, and Eric Schmidt – Chairman and CEO, Google Inc
5.Dries Buytaert – Founder and Lead, Drupal.org
6.Pete Cashmore - founder, Mashable.com
7.Jean-Francois Clavier - Founder and Managing Partner, Softtechvc.com
8.Bram Cohen - Cofounder, BitTorrent Protocol
9.Drew Curtis - Founder, Fark.com
10.Nick Denton - Founder, Gawker Media

According to laptoplogic.com

1. United Kingdom-Stephen Fry
2. United States-Ashton Kutcher
3. Iraq-Salam Pax
4. Jordan-Queen Rania al Abdullah
5. India-Shahid Kapoor
6. France-Monsieur Dream
7. Brazil-Mano Menezes
8. Spain-Pepper
9. Australia-Problogger
10. Ireland-TheREALBoyzone

According to Telegraph.co.uk