Twitter's public offering comes at a time of heightened investor interest in IPO market: 131 IPOs so far in 2013:
NEW YORK (AP) -- 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.
Here are some quick facts about Twitter
in 140 characters or less, the limit of
tweets.
-- MT Twitter We've confidentially
submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a
planned IPO.
-- #FunFact: In the first hour of
Twitter sending that IPO
announcement tweet, 7,872 people
retweeted the message.
-- According to APStylebook: "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: Jack, Biz
and Ev
-- First tweet by Jack was "just setting
up my twttr" on March 21, 2006, at 3:50
p.m.
-- Dorsey went on to create Square, 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.
#sxswinteractive #Austin #BBQ
-- Three years, two months and one
day: The time it took from the first
tweet to the billionth tweet. #CoolStat
-- Users on Twitter: More than 200
million. Facebook has 1.16 billion.
That's nearly six times as many.
#QuickMath
-- 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 smfrogers
-- The public offering comes at a time
of heightened investor interest in the
IPO market -- 131 IPOs have priced so
far this year.
-- Is Twitter trying to avoid
Facebook's May 2012 IPO #fail? Well,
company is keeping details secret for
now. #TwitterIPO
-- The company hasn't said if it makes a
profit or how much revenue it takes in.
#FadOrFuture? Wonder if
WarrenBuffett will buy stock.
-- Most of Twitter's revenue comes from
advertising. eMarketer estimates
$582.8 million this year, up from $288.3
million in 2012.
-- Compare: In latest quarter, Facebook
had $1.6 billion in ad revenue. By 2015,
Twitter's annual ad revenue is expected
to hit $1.3 billion.
-- 2013 #Superbowl performance by
Beyonce had 268 million tweets per
minute, more than any other event in
past two years.
-- Not everybody on Twitter is who
they claim to be. United Airlines CEO
Jeff Smisek has to put up with
FakeUnitedJeff
-- Sometimes even missing zoo animals
get their own Twitter accounts. And they
can be funny. Just read
BronxZoosCobra
-- Trying to find #Religion? More than
500,000 people look no further than
Jesus who describes himself in Twitter
as "Carpenter, Healer, God."
-- But 2.2 million #HarryPotter fans
follow Lord_Voldemort7, The Dark
Lord.
