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How Much is Twitter Worth?
So how is Twitter worth? What’s the value of a service with 125 million or so registered users? Is it $1-billion based on its latest round of funding or, perhaps, significantly more if you buy into the thesis of Naval Ravikant (an early Twitter investor) and Adam Rifkin that appeared recently on TechCrunch? Twitter could [...]
Whoa, Nelly! 50 million Tweets/Day
In 2007, there were 5,000 tweets created a day. Today, Twitter has proclaimed there are now more than 50 million tweets posted a day, which, in some respects, why Twitter has raised so much venture capital given it probably takes some serious computing power to send all those 140 character (or less) messages!
Twitter by Numbers: 1, 2, 100 Million
For anyone interested/fascinated in Twitter’s financing activity over the past two years, Mashable has a cool chart that provides information about the five rounds that have raised about $153-million. Among the eye-catching factoids is that the price of a share has soared from six-tenths of a cent from the first round in July 2007 to [...]
What Does Twitter Do With $50 Million?
According to TechCrunch, Twitter is poised to raise another $50-million – a move that will give it a $1-billion valuation. Given Twitter still has about $30-million in the bank and about 50 employees, why does Twitter need another $50-million othen than giving itself another five years of burn. Here are some ideas: 1. It’s going [...]
Twitter’s Growing Empire…and Burn
While Twitter toils away on generating revenue, the company’s busy burning through its venture capital booty. According to Twittercism, Twitter now has 47 employees – information gleaned from Twitter’s About Us page. That roughly works out to about $5-million of operating expenses a year using the $100,000/employee formula. If you throw in $2-million to $3-million [...]
Another VC Round for Twitter?