What would be the affects of the Twitter-verse if Google acquired the all-the-rage micro-blogging service?

Twitter would become the second product that Google has purchased from the brains and hearts of Evan Williams (@ev) and Biz Stone (@biz), as the folks in Mountain View acquired Blogger in February 2003.

At the time, Google released major improvements to Blogger’s core functionality and security, but innovation has now slowed on the product. UI improvements made within the past six months target Blogger’s community structure. While these features are in the spirit of good intention, they don’t make sense to me as I read, write and share with my friends on Blogger.

I am a big fan of Google. Before the Goog folks arrived on the Internet, providing top-tier products, software and services for free was an idea unheard of. I bookmark my friend’s houses and apartments with Google Maps. I continue to await a 2nd-Gen Android phone. I’ve used GMail for 4 years and love organizing my inbox the GMail way. I manage my monthly budget from Google Docs and I take 3 in 5 Google products for the test drive that they deserve.

I see Twitter and their 30-some employees as an agile up-and-comer with a stream-lined plan for innovation. To develop the Twitter product, features and brand on their own would be in their community’s best interest. Google would slow them down. I would highly resist Google’s acquisition of Twitter.

Read more: A complete list of Google acquisitions (Wikipedia)

You may find the way inwhich I consume the news unique. I’m a 20-somethings male, working as a web designer / developer within the ad industry. With that demographic in mind, here are the seven ways I consume news:

7. RSS.
I find syndications overwhelming — as if RSS is like checking email, where everything must be read.

6. Watching CNN.
I don’t watch Fox News, MSNBC or Kansas City’s local news in the evenings. I don’t watch Larry King on CNN — I merely consume the headlines via news anchors when watching CNN. In fact, most of my TV time is dedicated to The Office, LOST, SportsCenter and football/basketball/baseball games.

5. Browsing CNNPolitics.com.
I love their info-graphics and layout design. Also another reason to skip RSS.

4. Browsing Google News.
Google News is news for the people. Anyone writer or news service can push their article to the top of the food chain, so long as it’s something people are searching for and eager to hear about. If you’ve reported it online from the offices of your small-town weekly gazzette and made use of the right keywords, you’ll find yourself at the top of Google News. The key takeaway is that you don’t have to write for the Washington Post to make Google News. In the end, it’s another great way that small town papers can stay afloat these days.

3. Friend, family member or co-workers.
Most of these come from college friends via an article/link or in conversation.

2. Browsing the NYTimes.com.
I reward them, yet again, for great layout design.

1. Twitter.
I click through for headlines, news stories and other random-yet-current factoids via those I’m following. My follow list includes about a dozen personal friends, Lance Armstrong, Shaq, Rainn Wilson and Al Gore (among others).

I make it very hard for advertisers to reach me by way of traditional broadcast mediums. What will the future ad model become? How are you consuming the news?

Robert Graham introduced me to Joost last night, a handy little desktop app that allows your to stream online video from a few different outlets around the web.

With first glance, it’s awesome. I’m watching National Geographic (my new fave) — yeah, like the tv channel — on my macbook. Forget youtube, viddler and vimeo. Joost is where its at.