Is Google launching its own twitter offering?
Will Google soon enter the 140-character market? According to several U.S. media outlets, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, the search engine giant plans to compete with the microblogging service Twitter by launching its own platform.
The new service will allow Gmail users to send short messages to contacts and monitor their messages. Google could unveil the new service as early as this week, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, which cites an informed person. According to the information, Google's YouTube and Picasa will also integrate the service.
