You know by now that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin formed a new company, Alphabet, today as the parent organization over Google and all those other often crazy “moonshot” ideas in development.
The tech industry — typically heavy users of Twitter — was quick to react to the news with tweets that ranged from interesting to insightful and a few that I found absolutely hysterical. It’s only been a couple hours since the news broke, but we’ve already found more than 20 tweets that you have to see.
Reads Google announcement, checks calendar, rereads announcement, double checks it's not April. OK then http://t.co/PphWNWtc8T — Chris Copeland (@C2Next) August 10, 2015
What remains part of Google:profitWhat becomes other subsidiaries under Alphabet:expense — Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) August 10, 2015
The poor sysadmins at Alphabet International were probably not expecting a DDoS attack today. pic.twitter.com/jJmRcUHbWM — Luke Seemann (@bikesarefun) August 10, 2015
Congratulations to the owner of @alphabet, you just won the Twitter handle lottery. — Lev Naginsky (@levnaginsky) August 10, 2015
literally what the hell is going on — ಠ_ಠ (@MikeIsaac) August 10, 2015
"Well, technically we guaranteed you that 'google' wouldn't compete w Uber…. Heh heh heh" — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 10, 2015
Is this the most elaborate HR retention move of all time? — Kenneth Li (@kenli729) August 10, 2015
they’re renaming themselves to alphabet (alpha beta) cause none of their products ever leave beta. — Gar (@wraithgar) August 10, 2015
Bing should rename itself ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. — Eli Langer (@EliLanger) August 10, 2015
Microsoft will become Numbers and the URL they will use is http://t.co/E3xtsmSaBR… oh crap. — Adrian Vender (@adrianvender) August 10, 2015
Yo @google, how do we become the D in Alphabet? http://t.co/ICxV6SNTO0 — Digg (@digg) August 10, 2015
now we know the one person who bought an .xyz address… https://t.co/F51sqk1ZJd — Frederic Lardinois (@fredericl) August 10, 2015
THE CEO OF GOOGLE FINALLY FOLLOWS ME ON TWITTER!Oh and way to go @sundarpichai — Hunter Walk (@hunterwalk) August 10, 2015
OH in the office re: $GOOG: "Whatever is going on, it sounds expensive. We all should have become lawyers." — Bret Taylor (@btaylor) August 10, 2015
Does this mean Google bought the alphabet? Is Alphabet trademarked now? Are we allowed to write things still? https://t.co/AdNRoVSxPp — Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) August 10, 2015
Google: “Don’t be evil”Alphabet: “Evil is just one of our businesses” — Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) August 10, 2015
How ranking #1 on http://t.co/Opg6rgaJF8 saved our startup. Tomorrow's top post on Medium. — John Doherty (@dohertyjf) August 10, 2015
I can't wait for Alphabet+ — Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) August 10, 2015
Google changes in emoji ?Alphabet = ? Google? Calico? Fiber ? Ventures ? Nestx ?Google =? Search? YouTube? Android? Maps? Ads — Addy Osmani (@addyosmani) August 10, 2015
“alphabet it” just doesn’t have the same ring to it as “google it” does — @samsheffer (@samsheffer) August 10, 2015
You've really made it in life when Google is just 1/26th of the total companies you own. — Aaron Levie (@levie) August 10, 2015
If we catch any more funny, informative or clever tweets, we’ll add them to this post.
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