What's Twitter Saying About the Verizon-AOL Merger?

Early Tuesday morning, it was announced that Verizon Communications VZ would acquire AOL AOL for $50/share or $4.4 billion in cash. After the initial buzz, Benzinga took to Twitter to find the most inspiring and/or LOL-worthy tweets from pundits and personalities that we could find. Here are their stories: Paul LaMonica:

$AOL did well after spin-off from CNN owner $TWX. $50 is about 130% above 1st day close in 2009. Let's not talk about $AOL-$TWX deal though.

— Paul R. La Monica (@LaMonicaBuzz) May 12, 2015

Downtown Josh Brown:

$AOL's Tim Armstrong executes his business plan pic.twitter.com/xXGTirfFzn

— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) May 12, 2015

Sheila Dharmarajan:

How many months after $AOL/Time Warner did bubble burst? Yes, magnitude of numbers different....but can't help draw parallels. #justsaying

— Sheila Dharmarajan (@SheilaD_TV) May 12, 2015

Brian Sozzi:

Verizon got a steal: When Time Warner and AOL merged in 2000, AOL was valued at $166 billion. $VZ $AOL

— Brian Sozzi (@BrianSozzi) May 12, 2015

Joe McCann did a double-whammy:

$AOL purchased for 1/12th Uber's valuation.

— Joe McCann (@joemccann) May 12, 2015

Followed by:

$AAPL could have purchased $AOL with a mere 2% of its cash on hand.

— Joe McCann (@joemccann) May 12, 2015

Steve Spencer:

something tells me $VZ not gonna have much more luck w/ $AOL than $TWX had. but at least they didn't pay $100bln

— steven spencer (@sspencer_smb) May 12, 2015

And then Howard Lindzon:

$AOL congrats Tim Armstrong on this one. Always has been nice to me.

— howardlindzon (@howardlindzon) May 12, 2015