In his defence, Schmidt quickly clarified his remarks, saying that he had not meant to insult the site and that he had meant to say that people would use a combination of services like email, Facebook and Twitter.
Google has previously been reported to be interested in buying Twitter, and is also planning to add a Twitter search function, having reached an agreement with Twitter in October. Microsoft, however, has a similar agreement with Bing.
of within two hours of his first post, having seen other Google staff pointing to his profile, suggesting that it is the real deal.