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Top tech CEOs will testify about social media’s role in the Capitol attack this week

12:14 pm PDT • March 23, 2021

Social media executives will be answering to Congress directly for their role in January’s deadly attacks on the U.S. Capitol this week. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Google’s…

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Twitter Slips Below $40 As The NASDAQ And NYSE Flirt With Record Levels

11:14 am PST • November 25, 2013

Twitter’s stock is slipping today, shedding around 4.5 percent of its value in regular trading. That works out to around $1.3 billion in market capitalization, calculating with a fully diluted…

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Quick, Everyone IPO

2:07 pm PST • November 8, 2013

Facebook’s share price tanked upon IPO, scaring plenty of private companies away from the public markets. But with its eventual recovery and now the stellar performance of Twitter’s IPO out…

Twitter Drops 7.24% In Its Second Day Of Trading, Burning $2.3B In Market Cap

2:00 pm PST • November 8, 2013

Twitter priced its IPO at $26 per share. It opened yesterday at $45.10, closing the day at $44.90. Today it closed at $41.65, down 7.24%. Using a fully diluted share…

Banana Republic, CNNMoney And CNBC Among Top Twitter Accounts During TWTR IPO

10:03 am PST • November 8, 2013

Data from social media analytics companies Crimson Hexagon and Topsy give insight into the chatter during Twitter’s IPO using data gleaned from (what else?) tweets. Most of the accounts that…

To Buy Or Not To Buy? The Twitter Question

1:07 pm PST • November 7, 2013

As the offering date for Twitter approached, the bankers could not seem to make up their minds on the pricing, with the offering price rising from $17-$20 barely two weeks…

Meet The 9-Year-Old Who Rang The Opening Bell For Twitter’s IPO

12:54 pm PST • November 7, 2013

Before Twitter stock started trading this morning, journalists assumed that we’d see the company’s founders and/or executives ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange. And indeed, there…

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Twitter’s Strong IPO Leaves The Company More Richly Valued On A Per-User Basis Than Facebook At Its Debut

11:54 am PST • November 7, 2013

If you were holding Twitter stock yesterday and didn’t sell today, congrats. You can now afford an extra bedroom in your house in Pacific Heights. Or maybe a baby. But…

Twitter’s Underwriters Stand To Reap More Than $200M Following The Company’s IPO Spike

10:00 am PST • November 7, 2013

After strong demand, Twitter priced its IPO at $26 per share. Today Twitter went public,first trading at $45.10.The company is having a hell of an IPO day. But there is…

Twitter Flies On Its First Day As A Public Company: Shares Pop 74% On First Trades, Debuts At $45.10 And $31.8B Valuation

7:51 am PST • November 7, 2013

From a humble beginning as a failing podcast startup to an online conversation service now used by over 230 million people worldwide, Twitter today started its first day of trading…

#TwitterIPO Is Now Trending On Twitter, #6 On Google Trends

6:40 am PST • November 7, 2013

As Twitter’s IPO event kicks off this morning, the company’s social network is filled with Twitter-related tweets. So many, in fact, that “TwitterIPO” has now become a trending topic all…

Watch Twitter’s IPO Event Streaming Live At The New York Stock Exchange

5:51 am PST • November 7, 2013

Twitter’s IPO event from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange today will be streamed live, in a first for the NYSE. It’s fairly appropriate that Twitter would embrace…

How Biz Stone’s Biggest Mistake Spawned Twitter

7:12 pm PST • November 6, 2013

“The first, second, third company I went to work for, somehow I screwed them all up. Doing startups is all about making mistakes,” Biz Stone nervously admitted onstage at the…

Twitter Prices IPO Above Estimates At $26 Per Share, Raising $1.82B At Valuation Of Up To $18B

3:38 pm PST • November 6, 2013

Twitter will start trading at $26 when it goes on sale, according to an announcement made today by the company on Twitter. That’s on the low side of expected pricing…

Twitter Will List Its Shares At $27, Valuing The Firm At $14.7 Billion, Reports Indicate

9:26 am PST • November 6, 2013

Twitter might have wanted a quiet IPO, but massive demand for the relatively limited shares in its flotation are driving its listing price higher. According to CNBC, Twitter will go…

Twitter Could Price IPO Well Above New $23-$25 Range, After Strong Private Market Interest

12:47 pm PST • November 4, 2013

Twitter could price its IPO well above the new $23-25 range it set earlier today, according to MicroVentures CEO Tim Sullivan. The pricing range was originally set at at $17-23.…

IBM Claims Twitter Infringes On At Least 3 Of Its Patents, According To Twitter’s Latest S-1 Update

6:32 am PST • November 4, 2013

As Twitter embarks on its initial public offering roadshow, the company has issued another update to its S-1 today with a curveball. IBM has recently issued a letter to Twitter…

Plotting The Way To IPO, Twitter’s Product Roadmap Has Become Too Data Driven

2:11 pm PST • November 3, 2013

In its rush towards becoming a public company, Twitter is in danger of sacrificing focus on the altar of growth. And it’s doing it with decisions based heavily on data…

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Twitter To Offer 70M Shares Priced At $17-$20 Per Share To Raise Up To $1.4B In IPO

1:06 pm PDT • October 24, 2013

Twitter will offer 70 million shares in its initial public offering, and will price them at $17-$20 per share, according to an amended S-1 filing.Twitter’s IPO pricing range was rumored…

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Twitter User Growth Decelerating: +6% In Q3 To 231.7 Million Now Vs +10% In Q1

3:33 pm PDT • October 15, 2013

Twitter’s percent user growth is slowing. In a new S-1 amendment to its IPO filing, Twitter notes it hit 231.7 million monthly users by at the end of Q3 2013,…

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Twitter Doubles Its Q3 Revenue, But Its Aggregate 2013 Loss Has Widened To $133.8M

3:26 pm PDT • October 15, 2013

According to its newly refiled S-1 document, Twitter has lost $133.8 million to date in 2013. That compares negatively with its equivalent loss of $70.7 million in 2012. Both loss…

Twitter Announces It Will List On The NYSE Under TWTR

2:30 pm PDT • October 15, 2013

Twitter has amended its S-1 filing to note that it will be listing on the New York Stock Exchange under the TWTR symbol, a detail that was omitted from the…

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How Will The Fiscal Mess In Washington Impact Twitter’s IPO?

4:38 pm PDT • October 14, 2013

As excitement grows for the upcoming Twitter IPO, the federal government shutdown and pending debt-ceiling issue looms large. There are some in Silicon Valley who believe that the current innovation…

Twitter Quitters And The Unfiltered Feed Problem

10:27 am PDT • October 5, 2013

At its heart, Twitter is a firehose. Everything you tweet shows up to every one of your followers. It’s what makes Twitter feel like the real-time pulse of the world.…

The Potential And Pitfalls Of Twitter’s Mobile Business

8:32 am PDT • October 5, 2013

Twitter has millions of monthly users, growing revenue, brand awareness, a propensity for breaking news, and data ripe for mining. Adding to this, Twitter’s main feed allows advertisers and media…

Saps Looking For Twitter Bounce Penny Stock 1,400%, Telegraph Strong Retail Interest In Its IPO

3:53 pm PDT • October 4, 2013

I have all my money under a mattress in fear of a debt ceiling collapse, and people are buying stock because they think an S-1 means the company has started…

2:45 pm PDT • October 4, 2013

When it comes to acquisitions, it’s clear that Twitter had been spending more money on acquiring technologies and talent in 2013 than in the past few years. According to the…

Twitter Vs. Facebook IPO In One Chart

11:23 am PDT • October 4, 2013

In the near future, anyone with an Internet connection and some lunch money will be able to invest in one of Silicon Valley’s hottest tech companies. But after big brotherFacebook’s…

How Many Of Twitter’s 218 Million Users Are Just Blind-Tweeting From Other Apps?

7:00 pm PDT • October 3, 2013

Being a communication backbone of the web has its pluses and minuses. Twitter gets lots of content syndicated from other sites, but those contributors don’t necessarily visit Twitter or see…

Twitter Has Been Making 80 Cents In Ad Revenue For Every Thousand ‘Timeline Views’

6:49 pm PDT • October 3, 2013

If you’re reading Twitter’s S-1 filing to see where the business stands as it prepares to go public (hey, that’s what everyone’s doing at TechCrunch), you may have noticed a…