Tweetable facts about Twitter's IPO
New York - Twitter has redefined the way we communicate, get news and share tidbits of our lives. It has even been credited with starting a revolution or two. The company, based in San Francisco, announced Thursday that it intends to sell stock to the public for the first time. Naturally, it did it via a tweet.
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Here are some quick facts about Twitter in 140 characters or less, the limit of tweets.
- MT àTwitter We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO.
- îFunFact: In the first hour of àTwitter sending that IPO announcement tweet, 7,872 people retweeted the message.
- According to àAPStylebook: "The verb is to tweet, tweeted. A Twitter message is known as a tweet."
- The company was founded 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams. Their handles: àJack, àBiz and àEv
- First tweet by àJack was "just setting up my twttr" on March 21, 2006, at 3:50 p.m.
- Dorsey went on to create àSquare, a system for paying for coffee, goods through phones.
- Twitter soared to popularity in 2007 at the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas. îsxswinteractive îAustin îBBQ
- Three years, two months and one day: The time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet. îCoolStat
- Users on àTwitter: More than 200 million. àFacebook has 1.16 billion. That's nearly six times as many. îQuickMath
- A billion tweets are sent every two and a half days. Put another way, that's three for every man, woman and child in the U.S. via àsmfrogers
- The public offering comes at a time of heightened investor interest in the IPO market - 131 IPOs have priced so far this year.
- Is àTwitter trying to avoid àFacebook's May 2012 IPO îfail? Well, company is keeping details secret for now. îTwitterIPO
- The company hasn't said if it makes a profit or how much revenue it takes in. îFadOrFuture? Wonder if àWarrenBuffett will buy stock.
- Most of Twitter's revenue comes from advertising. àeMarketer estimates ê582.8 million this year, up from ê288.3 million in 2012.
- Compare: In latest quarter, Facebook had ê1.6 billion in ad revenue. By 2015, Twitter's annual ad revenue is expected to hit ê1.3 billion.
- 2013 îSuperbowl performance by àBeyonce had 268 million tweets per minute, more than any other event in past two years.
- Not everybody on àTwitter is who they claim to be. àUnited Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek has to put up with àFakeUnitedJeff
- Sometimes even missing zoo animals get their own Twitter accounts. And they can be funny. Just read àBronxZoosCobra
- Trying to find îReligion? More than 500,000 people look no further than àJesus who describes himself in Twitter as "Carpenter, Healer, God."
- MT àTwitter We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO.
- îFunFact: In the first hour of àTwitter sending that IPO announcement tweet, 7,872 people retweeted the message.
- According to àAPStylebook: "The verb is to tweet, tweeted. A Twitter message is known as a tweet."
- The company was founded 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams. Their handles: àJack, àBiz and àEv
- First tweet by àJack was "just setting up my twttr" on March 21, 2006, at 3:50 p.m.
- Dorsey went on to create àSquare, a system for paying for coffee, goods through phones.
- Twitter soared to popularity in 2007 at the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas. îsxswinteractive îAustin îBBQ
- Three years, two months and one day: The time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet. îCoolStat
- Users on àTwitter: More than 200 million. àFacebook has 1.16 billion. That's nearly six times as many. îQuickMath
- A billion tweets are sent every two and a half days. Put another way, that's three for every man, woman and child in the U.S. via àsmfrogers
- The public offering comes at a time of heightened investor interest in the IPO market - 131 IPOs have priced so far this year.
- Is àTwitter trying to avoid àFacebook's May 2012 IPO îfail? Well, company is keeping details secret for now. îTwitterIPO
- The company hasn't said if it makes a profit or how much revenue it takes in. îFadOrFuture? Wonder if àWarrenBuffett will buy stock.
- Most of Twitter's revenue comes from advertising. àeMarketer estimates ê582.8 million this year, up from ê288.3 million in 2012.
- Compare: In latest quarter, Facebook had ê1.6 billion in ad revenue. By 2015, Twitter's annual ad revenue is expected to hit ê1.3 billion.
- 2013 îSuperbowl performance by àBeyonce had 268 million tweets per minute, more than any other event in past two years.
- Not everybody on àTwitter is who they claim to be. àUnited Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek has to put up with àFakeUnitedJeff
- Sometimes even missing zoo animals get their own Twitter accounts. And they can be funny. Just read àBronxZoosCobra
- Trying to find îReligion? More than 500,000 people look no further than àJesus who describes himself in Twitter as "Carpenter, Healer, God."
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