Twitter has now reached the peak and it should seriously think of selling it . Though the metrics say that its visitors are increasing by 1500%,...60% of the new visitors are not coming back.
Alex D
· 7 months ago
"We're not for sale
... unless you have a billion in cash."
Travis Campbell
· 7 months ago
I was just thinking the same thing...sorta. Facebook was offered $1B a while back, and turned it down. There is something to this social networking stuff that people don't want to walk away from.
Justyn
· 7 months ago
I'm glad to hear it, these guys are doing the right things and I think we all want to see how this grows with them behind the wheel before it's shelved by a mega company.
Mike
· 7 months ago
I'm willing to bet Twitter will be sold by the end of the year. If not, I'll be very surprised.
I can't see Twitter being sold any time soon, the Twitter guys love what they are doing and have shown that they can get venture capital when they need it. Why give up your dream job when there's no need to?
John
· 7 months ago
I think they would give up the dream job for a billion dollars. They'd probably still be able to lead Twitter too.
apatheticmike
· 7 months ago
I dunno, they way I see it is that they are certain to get a big payout in the future, but if they sell out now not only could the pay out be smaller, they will loose control over the business. Even if they are put in charge, it's not the same as it being your own company. That sense of ownership is difficult to put a price tag on.
Joseph
· 7 months ago
They have investors who've sunk a lot of money into Twitter, so it's not like they are totally in charge.
James Hofheins
· 7 months ago
Awesome! I don't want twitter to sell out, and I'm not a big Apple fan (I'm a Big Apple fan, but that's a different story)
As long as they are happy then whatever, I just hope twitter does not become all spammy, I like it the way it is. :-)
Envirogeru
· 7 months ago
Are you selling stock yet on the exchange or privately? Thank you
Tweeterism
· 7 months ago
Twitter has a lot of bargaining power right now and it doesn't seem like the right time to sell, given that its business model hasn't even been initiated.
X-Static Media Group
· 7 months ago
What I can't understand is as easily as the Twitter guys can acquire new capital funding, why can't they beef up their network to handle the growth that keeps happening? It's pretty much everyday that you hear people talk about how slow Twitter is and how it can't keep up. This should be on the top of the list to get ironed out!
jjhunsecker
· 7 months ago
You mean "spate" of rumors. Not "spat."
Spate: A string, series or trend; A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
Spat: a brief argument; to quarrel or argue briefly.
Adam Ostrow
· 7 months ago
ack, you are correct, fixed
Joe Styer
· 7 months ago
I agree on holding it. In a year it should only double in value. I wonder what they do make in advertising though?
Sheila-ArmyWife
· 7 months ago
They say that now, But every thing is for sale for the right price
salvationisapopsong
· 7 months ago
In Twitter we trust! You hold the keys to our Salvation!
Ted Grubb
· 7 months ago
Isn't that what YouTube said weeks before they were scooped up by Google for 1.65B?
Sometimes the money isn't worth it. When you have something, you have something!
chaosnet3
· 7 months ago
"Yahoo recently announced it was shutting down Geocities,..", "Google (Google reviews) shutdown both Jaiku and Dodgeball .." "MySpace (MySpace reviews) has languished and lost its lead in social networking since being purchased by News Corp."
Hard-nosed productivity, a tomb, for innovation and creativity. Creativity, as is widespread in all individuals, of all walks of life, hard-nose productivity, a Procrustes bed. As they, would stretch and shrink, creativity and creative individuals, to fit their 'Procrustean bed', drooling in hiding, sizing up profits, what they will squeeze out of the social sites.
Why would they not be content, in what they have, and try instead to make better the product, they are best at. To go with the flow instead of converging the flow, cashing it in, to their tills.
iTbay
· 7 months ago
with a 700 million purchase offer, note the following:
Google P/E* ratio is 29.51 Apple P/E* ratio is 23.84
Both of these companies have meet or exceed Wall Street expectations and have not been significantly hit by the economic woes of the past mayhem in the market. Also, earnings for both companies would be positively correlated to Twitter potential business model (advertising - search, mobile ads etc.).
Twitter is not a publicly traded company like Google and Apple are; the P in the price to earnings ratio is the market capitalization or value of the shares that the market (stock market) is willing to pay for these companies shares; in other words, it is the value of a company that the stock market (Google investors) have paid for Google's shares.Therefore, the p in the case of Twitter is the 700 million purchase offer as noted above. In terms of earnings, using Google's P/E ratio yields earnings for Twitter of 23.7 million - using Apple's P/E yields earnings of 29.36 million. Therefore, the ROI for Twitter would be 3 percent similar to a return on a Treasury bill. Given that the value of any investment can be valued based on its future earnings (other valuation methods may be applied) for the price of 700 million, Twitter's business model must differentiate themselves from these companies, compete directly or lower its purchase price for these companies to obtain ROI's above 3% per year.
*P/E (price to earnings ratio) is a measure of the price paid for a share relative to the annual net income or profit earned by the firm per share.
on twitter @itbay
Arleen Anderson
· 7 months ago
Is it possible Twitter is a pioneer of genius in advertising? How much play did Apple and Twitter get with this rumor? To be interviewed on The View? By Bahbawa Wahah no less!
BTW- Saw in my Google Chrome screen today while Twitter was slow on the update a faint message that it was WAITING for Google to index! Hmmm is Google paying Twitter? Maybe the big boys can all scratch each other's backs and let the small consumer keep his/her money. Now that would be sweet! Aloha! Yes... you can tweet me @AlohaArleen http://www.AlohaArleen.com
jpostman
· 7 months ago
The Apple rumor is/was nonsense. Apple isn't in that business or anything close to it. If the Twitter founders were going to sell, there's no reason for them to take less than $1B.
Justin Parks
· 7 months ago
Is no one else even mildly concerned about how titter will make money? Or what this "secret" business model is all about? I see alot of people using twitter to expand both socially and business wise and it appears to me that they are on occasion basing their whole business model around a single tool.
While im not expecting twitter to fold tomorrow simply because of its growth rate and size I do wonder what will happen when this secretive business model is realised...
John
· 7 months ago
Right now, I think no body know what would be the right price but I am sure that some of the big guys sleep with an eye open on Twitter. We will find out, probably sooner than lather; “When? Who? and How Much?”
spryka
· 7 months ago
Twitter is like a breath of fresh air on the Social Media scene. I have been on it for just a few weeks now and I have met several interesting people. It is a platform to network with people you would like to meet in real life.
I wish Apple would buy them out. That way when your account breaks, you can actually get a hold of someone who can help you. Instead of receiving the exact same email over and over again.
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... unless you have a billion in cash."
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Spate: A string, series or trend; A river flood; an overflow or inundation.
Spat: a brief argument; to quarrel or argue briefly.
I wonder what they do make in advertising though?
"Google (Google reviews) shutdown both Jaiku and Dodgeball .."
"MySpace (MySpace reviews) has languished and lost its lead in social networking since being purchased by News Corp."
Hard-nosed productivity, a tomb, for innovation and creativity. Creativity, as is widespread in all individuals, of all walks of life, hard-nose productivity, a Procrustes bed. As they, would stretch and shrink, creativity and creative individuals, to fit their 'Procrustean bed', drooling in hiding, sizing up profits, what they will squeeze out of the social sites.
Why would they not be content, in what they have, and try instead to make better the product, they are best at. To go with the flow instead of converging the flow, cashing it in, to their tills.
Google P/E* ratio is 29.51
Apple P/E* ratio is 23.84
Both of these companies have meet or exceed Wall Street expectations and have not been significantly hit by the economic woes of the past mayhem in the market. Also, earnings for both companies would be positively correlated to Twitter potential business model (advertising - search, mobile ads etc.).
Twitter is not a publicly traded company like Google and Apple are; the P in the price to earnings ratio is the market capitalization or value of the shares that the market (stock market) is willing to pay for these companies shares; in other words, it is the value of a company that the stock market (Google investors) have paid for Google's shares.Therefore, the p in the case of Twitter is the 700 million purchase offer as noted above. In terms of earnings, using Google's P/E ratio yields earnings for Twitter of 23.7 million - using Apple's P/E yields earnings of 29.36 million. Therefore, the ROI for Twitter would be 3 percent similar to a return on a Treasury bill. Given that the value of any investment can be valued based on its future earnings (other valuation methods may be applied) for the price of 700 million, Twitter's business model must differentiate themselves from these companies, compete directly or lower its purchase price for these companies to obtain ROI's above 3% per year.
*P/E (price to earnings ratio) is a measure of the price paid for a share relative to the annual net income or profit earned by the firm per share.
on twitter @itbay
BTW- Saw in my Google Chrome screen today while Twitter was slow on the update a faint message that it was WAITING for Google to index! Hmmm is Google paying Twitter? Maybe the big boys can all scratch each other's backs and let the small consumer keep his/her money. Now that would be sweet!
Aloha! Yes... you can tweet me @AlohaArleen
http://www.AlohaArleen.com
While im not expecting twitter to fold tomorrow simply because of its growth rate and size I do wonder what will happen when this secretive business model is realised...
I am sure that some of the big guys sleep with an eye open on Twitter.
We will find out, probably sooner than lather; “When? Who? and How Much?”
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