what if they IPO it and company will be worth 50billion ont he market? besides they all rich already anyways

lots of action on tumblr for certain niches and communities.

massive erotic photo community there, very active and passionate, generally untapped as the adult internet can only conceive of things on a paysite model basis.

Did anyone post how much twitter actually makes a year?

I'm calling bullshit on this, a rumor perhaps intentionally started to give the illusion that Twitter is more valuable than most assumed. :2 cents:

$10 billion dollars? No fucking way. Bullshit that Google would make that kind of offer in the first place, and even bigger bullshit an offer like that would get turned down.

Getting that offer probably convinced them they could make more holding onto it. You would never see me again if I was given an offer like that.

you only have to look at the ghost town of myspace to make you shake your head at any social media site turning down a $10B offer. Groupon did the same.

groupon's a piece of crap - fad. of course i wish that piece of crap was my idea :)

I too would have taken the money, but Twitter has far from run its' course.

I was in Europe last week and it is just starting to catch on like wildfire over there.

It has become an information sharing source that has no equal.

Politicians, News Agencies, Professional Sports Teams etc.. all actively promote their twitter pages.

I have a feeling it is just going to keep growing and will reach 100 million users worldwide.

$10 Billion, if true, is a lot of money — what is twitter's net worth any idea?

heres an intresting read on what they have done or not

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/...r-making-money

Premium accounts

What they said: Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in August that the company would charge users for "premium accounts". In November, Stone said the plans were well on their way and that a pay-for-package offering that would include verified streams and analytics would launch by the end of the year.

What they've done: The company has not started charging for premium accounts. However, it has rolled out free business-friendly features like "contributors," which helps differentiate between multiple users of a single Twitter account.

Mobile deals

What they said: At our own EconSM conference, Kevin Thau, Twitter's director of mobile business development, said the company would make money from handset deals and also by getting some sort of cut of the carriers' data business.

What they've done: Twitter has dozens of relationships with carriers—financial details of which are unknown. The company did, however, link up with Peek in November to launch a $99 device designed for the frequent Tweeter.
Search

What they said: Thau also said at our conference that Twitter would monetise search "in some way".

What they've done: Twitter has since licensed its stream of Tweets to Microsoft, Google and Yahoo – which are all using the data to add real-time results from Twitter to their search engines. The Microsoft and Google deals alone are believed to be worth as much as $25m.


more on the link above

:1orglaugh Good post

that is a fucking business :)