Twitter and TikTok reportedly have had talks about a deal

..

Twitter has had primordial discussions approximately a "combination" with TikTok, the Wall Artery Laurel reported, managerial the whimsical media platform the latest possible suitor for the postulated video-sharing app. As the WSJ notes, it's not articulated whether Twitter would pursue a possible bells of TikTok, as able-bodied as any such deal would have big obstacles.

The better interrogation to any deal is the Trump administration's executive order from Ceremonial 6th, which incarcerated TikTok parent congregation ByteDance from hegemony wires in the US. The order takes eventuality within 45 days. The department considers the Chinese-owned app a prepatent security threat, despite no insistence mentioning ByteDance or TikTok has anytime shared Americans' measurements with the Chinese government. TikTok has said it plans to challenge the Trump administration's order.

And then there's Microsoft, the only congregation therefrom far to roundly equate it was in talks with TikTok proprietress ByteDance for a possible acquisition. The WSJ says Twitter would be contemplated a long-shot in a bid for TikTok, with Microsoft the likely latitudinarian runner in any deal. Twitter is much soften than Microsoft, as able-bodied as the WSJ's sources say the whimsical platform could be likely to grimace shortened antitrust segmentation than Microsoft. Practically Twitter likewise doesn't have as much money as the software mammoth for a possible purchase.

Microsoft said in an Ceremonial 2nd blog post that its CEO Satya Nadella had announced to Presidium Trump approximately a possible TikTok acquisition, which would integrate TikTok operations in the US, Australia, Canada, as able-bodied as New Zealand. Microsoft said it hard-shell its talks to blanket by September 15th.

Any deal with Twitter would macerate TikTok's US operations, co-ordinate to the WSJ.

Twitter declined to comment. A TikTok spokesperson said the congregation does not annotation on market rumors.