He quedado plop! Google compró al clon chico de Twitter… Lo dicen en su Official Google Blog.

En la blogósfera leo que Twitter ha tenido problemas de escalabilidad, que pasa más en el suelo que Jaiku, eso inclinó la balanza en su favor. Pero me sigue pareciendo extraño. Bueno, tal vez sea más fácil ahora que todo el mundo se suba al microblogging mediante la fuerza de marketing de Google. Le tenía cariño a Twitter…

En el sitio de Jaiku lo explican así:

Wonderful Jaiku users,

Exciting news, Jaiku is joining Google!

While it’s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you’ll find interesting and useful. Our engineers are excited to be working together and enthusiastic developers lead to great innovation. We look forward to accomplishing great things together. In order to focus on innovation instead of scaling, we have decided to close new user sign-ups for now.

But fear not, all our Jaiku services will stay running the way you are used to and you will be able to invite your friends to Jaiku. We have put together a quick Q&A about the acquisition.

Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen, Jaiku Founders