San Francisco  - The internet was buzzing with chatter Friday following a report on an influential technology blog that Google was in talks to purchase cellphone blogging site Twitter.

The report on Techcruch. om said that the internet search giant was in late stage of negotiations to buy Twitter for a cash and stock deal which could be the company's biggest acquisition since it snapped up YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars three years ago.

The reports/rumors, saying that the search giant Google is in advanced stage talks to buy social networking and micro-blogging service Twitter, are hot and around! These reports/rumors have recently appeared on TechCrunch.

According to TechCrunch, two unnamed sources have reported that Google is in late stage take over negotiations with Twitter and the asking price of the Twitter acquisition deal is more than the $250m (£170m), but another anonymous source has revealed that Google is only in the early stage dialogue with Twitter.