Recently, Salesforce.com's chief executive officer, Marc Benioff, made a bid to purchase Twitter. In fact, he has been on a shopping spree, snapping up companies such as Demandware for ecommerce and productivity software maker Quip Inc. In the last few years, he's also purchased a slew of artificial intelligence startups that formed the basis for its new CRM solution, Einstein.

Is Marc onto something? And, why is Twitter, the company that Wall Street has written off, so valuable to a CRM Provider such as Salesforce.com? The simple answer: Knowledge!