Why Did Google Work With Twitter, Not Jaiku?

Google owns Jaiku, one of many Twitter-like services on the web, so when it decided to do a collaboration with Twitter over today’s election news, it left a number of people confused. The Google Maps mashup, which shows updates from voters (and anyone else) mapped on a Google Map as they are sent in, providing a real time commentary from the voting public on the election.
While the map obviously wouldn’t be that useful if enough people weren’t using it, and Twitter seems to have the largest audience, it still seems strange that Google would choose not to use its own in-house product. Valleywag seems to think that Google just doesn’t care anymore about Jaiku, and might be looking to buy Twitter. The way Google is doing nothing with Jaiku, at least half of that seems pretty accurate.

See original post by Nathan Weinberg