Originally Posted by $5 submissions

Things that make you say WITW! Twitter turned down $10B from Google. I guess they are all excited about their 200M user base. Knowing twitter's attrition rate, this is more along the lines of 20M REAL and ACTIVE users. Sure, there's lots of active bots and also lots of people dropping out. Still... $10B turned down. Lots of tears came to VC eyes that day, I'm sure.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/twitt...-report-2011-4