Twitter Takes On Google’s Alphabet: Today’s Best Tweets So Far

You know by now that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin formed a new company, Alphabet, today as the parent organization over Google and all those other often crazy “moonshot” ideas in development.

The tech industry — typically heavy users of Twitter — was quick to react to the news with tweets that ranged from interesting to insightful and a few that I found absolutely hysterical. It’s only been a couple hours since the news broke, but we’ve already found more than 20 tweets that you have to see.

Reads Google announcement, checks calendar, rereads announcement, double checks it's not April. OK then http://t.co/PphWNWtc8T

— Chris Copeland (@C2Next) August 10, 2015

https://twitter.com/GlennF/status/630859029082849284

https://twitter.com/bikesarefun/status/630855685790674944

https://twitter.com/levnaginsky/status/630847922075234304

https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/630846577947639809

https://twitter.com/hunterwalk/status/630854342132641792

Is this the most elaborate HR retention move of all time?

— Kenneth Li (@kenli729) August 10, 2015

https://twitter.com/wraithgar/status/630848948496830464

Bing should rename itself ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

— Eli Langer (@EliLanger) August 10, 2015

https://twitter.com/adrianvender/status/630853739100925952

Yo @google, how do we become the D in Alphabet? http://t.co/ICxV6SNTO0

— Digg (@digg) August 10, 2015

now we know the one person who bought an .xyz address… https://t.co/F51sqk1ZJd

— Frederic Lardinois (@fredericl) August 10, 2015

https://twitter.com/hunterwalk/status/630848072638009344

OH in the office re: $GOOG: "Whatever is going on, it sounds expensive. We all should have become lawyers."

— Bret Taylor (@btaylor) August 10, 2015

Does this mean Google bought the alphabet? Is Alphabet trademarked now? Are we allowed to write things still? https://t.co/AdNRoVSxPp

— Chris “Law Dork” Geidner (@chrisgeidner) August 10, 2015

Google: “Don’t be evil”
Alphabet: “Evil is just one of our businesses”

— Tim Carmody (@tcarmody) August 10, 2015

How ranking #1 on http://t.co/Opg6rgaJF8 saved our startup. Tomorrow's top post on Medium.

— John Doherty 👍 (@dohertyjf) August 10, 2015

I can't wait for Alphabet+

— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) August 10, 2015

Google changes in emoji 👚

Alphabet =
🐱 Google
👶 Calico
🔌 Fiber
👛 Ventures
🔔 Nest
x 🔬

Google =
🔍 Search
📺 YouTube
📱 Android
🌎 Maps
📢 Ads

— Addy Osmani (@addyosmani) August 10, 2015

“alphabet it” just doesn’t have the same ring to it as “google it” does

— Sam Sheffer (@samsheffer) August 10, 2015

You've really made it in life when Google is just 1/26th of the total companies you own.

— Aaron Levie (@levie) August 10, 2015

If we catch any more funny, informative or clever tweets, we’ll add them to this post.