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Verrrry eeenteresting.

Twitter cofounder Biz Stone will appear on the Tavis Smiley show tomorrow night. About 45 seconds into a preview clip from the interview, Biz says that during the most recent denial-of-service attacks on Twitter, the startup learned a lot about how to deal with such attacks in the future by working “with folks from Google.”

via Google Helped Twitter Deal With Attacks (GOOG)

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There’s been much speculation to date about a Google-Twitter union. That will only increase now that Facebook is aligned with Friendfeed.   Was Google simply showing  cyber-citizen goodwill by helping Twitter fight off the DoS attack, or is this a hint at what’s to come?

Either way, you might want to brush up on ‘It’s a Small World After All.’  And replace ‘Small’ with ‘Google.’