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When my daughter was 12 years old, I took her to Paris. My mother and her whole side of the family are French. I wanted to show my daughter her heritage.As a mother and daughter team, we seemed invincible. Everyone was nice to us.I love Paris.For some reason, wherever I went, everyone kept staring at me. Maybe I looked like someone famous. I would smile back, make eye contact, and treat them like family.Because that's what you do when you're in someone’s home, and when you're in Paris, you're in someone’s home.Blend. Blend in. Everyone there appreciates that so much. No one is better than anyone else. Remember that.Anyway, one of the first things that struck me in Paris was the PASSION. No wonder artists and writers throughout the years (past and present) thrive(d) there. I could literally just SMELL the creativity.Creativity showed EVERYWHERE, from the artwork to the architecture. Everywhere you turn, someone's creation was staring right back at you.The next thing I noticed was the pride the Parisians have for their city. It's not easy being a city that depends a lot on tourism. Many livelihoods are invested there.We got along with everyone and loved the privately owned bakeries and chocolate shops off the main walkways. We became friends with a lot of wonderful people.I could go on forever. The food was always delicious and the flowers planted in boxes high up outside windows kept bugs away, but I would like to present the favorite “first impression memory” of my daughter’s, from the view of a child.It was the dogs.Dogs are welcome just about anywhere in Paris. There were dogs on chairs in the outdoor and indoor cafés. There were dogs with the taxi drivers. Dogs of all sizes and breeds were everywhere. Lots of well- behaved dogs.I know they thought they were people too.And last November (2015) when the horrible tragedy in Paris happened, my daughter and I called each other and cried.I would like to share with you the photo she made and posted that week, years after she had been there, along with the words she wrote:Paris will never be the exact Paris it once was before the recent terrorism, but Paris has survived all these years because of its core strength.And I would have to say that is the overall feeling that struck me whenever I've been there.Its’ strength.I love Paris.

Yes Facebook should be allowed to buy Twitter. I don't see how it violates U.S. or EU anti-trust laws. But it's not up to me to decide either.Twitter traffic is modest, declining and small, compared to Facebook. So it really is a big company acquiring a much smaller company IMHO.Above from Google Trends.Growth in Twitter traffic for the year is decidedly mixed, with a horrendous 14%+ monthly drop in unique visitors in November 2015.Above from Compete.comFacebook hasn't been growing at all this year. In fact, Facebook had a big drop in traffic in April. But Facebook is almost back to where it was at the start of the year. Unlike Twitter, Facebook month over month traffic for November 2015 only dropped 1.14%.That said, the regulators will look at this proposed merger and may even disallow it or put conditions on it.I own Twitter stock and Facebook stock. On a market cap basis, I am overweight Twitter relative to Facebook.I'd love to see Facebook buy Twitter at or above the current market price.As a unique product, the competition Twitter faces is really mindshare from adjacent competitors like Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Apple News, etc.Whether you use Twitter for news, socializing with friends, meeting new folks online, learning, micro blogging, lurking, interacting, venting, trolling, entertainment, etc., there is a strong competitor that is growing.Lastly, Twitter isn't even in the top 5 social media networking iOS apps in most countries.Above from AppAnnieFacebook won't try to buy Twitter. Neither company is growing. Zuck called Twitter a clown car that crashed into a goldmine. To date, Zuck has been buying startups of the future, not the past. Meaning Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus. And he tried to buy Snapchat.But if Facebook does try to buy Twitter, regulators should let it happen. There's no monopoly risk when the target company is nearly imploding.Additional disclaimer- I may change my position with respect to Twitter and Facebook at any time without notice. I may take leveraged short positions on either or both stocks.

Thanks for the A2A.For me it was within one month of starting the blog.I registered a blog on mid July 2015 and posted an article about the viral “ November 2015 Blackout ” hoax in mid-august. Within a few days of writing that post, I started getting a few hundred visitors, which increased everyday by a few hundred until I got more than 10000 visitors a single day. That was the day when I decided to pull off that article. The link to my blog was all over Facebook, twitter and Google brought me more than 120K visitors in a single month.