Larry Page’s comments today about Twitter and real-time search prompted this question: What would happen if Google launched a micro-blogging platform?

I’m not talking about Jaiku, which is DOA, but a new service from the propeller heads within the GooglePlex that would match Twitter’s basic functionality AND offer a variety of frills that Twitter has no interest in providing.

Before this idea is summarily dismissed, Google has a track record for launching me-too products such as GMail, Google Reader, Picasa and Google Maps. So why not Twoogle? What does it have to lose?

While Twitter obviously dominates the micro-blogging market, I think it’s vulnerable to competition. Twitter’s biggest weakness – aside from the lack of a business plan – is how its platform has not evolved much over the past year or so. Sure, search is better and it recently introduced trends but Twitter still lacks sizzle.

Google could launch a Twitter-like service that would be integrated into your GMail username and password. It could throw in some Picasa functionality to share photos (a la TwitPic), some link-sharing via Google Reader and some document sharing via Google Docs. Voila, a multi-featured micro-blogging platform.

What do you think? Should Google take another stab at the micro-blogging game?

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