Actually, CAN it be worse than facebooks? I submit that it cannot.
How to get a piece of Twitter's IPO
How to get a piece of Twitter's IPO
Will it be worse than Facebook's?
- Thread starter c4yrslf12
- Start date
worked out ok for zucks
It will be very hard to short 1 day after IPO. Your broker needs to have an inventory of stock for you to borrow from to short. Unless you are a very active trader with a great relationship with your broker, that's unlikely to happen. Even then many brokers simply won't have enough inventory after the first day for any meaningful short volume. Additionally, options trading will be delayed for a defined period of time after IPO conditional on the exchange it is trading on.
Considering Twitter was able to file a special type of IPO for companies that make less than $1bn a year and they've been around for 7 years now, I think they're going to have a bad time.
Twitter has raised over a billion dollars in VC money. This is yet another round of the great VC Ponzi scheme only with public shareholders now, where the investors are able to see great ROI on an investment in something that quite possibly will never run in the black. It's a joke really.
Twitter has raised over a billion dollars in VC money. This is yet another round of the great VC Ponzi scheme only with public shareholders now, where the investors are able to see great ROI on an investment in something that quite possibly will never run in the black. It's a joke really.
2 dumbest things I've read about it so far...
1. Zuckerberg apparently had made a "statement" a day before the announcement from Twitter how it was "okay to go public" for internet companies (I have no source, but this is what I remember)
2. Twitter is guessing it's valuation from $15B to $20B because the initial investors are at $10B and want a profit
Make you want out of #1, but #2 is absurd. You can't just pick a number because you want profit. That's the same shit facebook got into in the beginning, having a valuation which nobody could actually calculate.
1. Zuckerberg apparently had made a "statement" a day before the announcement from Twitter how it was "okay to go public" for internet companies (I have no source, but this is what I remember)
2. Twitter is guessing it's valuation from $15B to $20B because the initial investors are at $10B and want a profit
Make you want out of #1, but #2 is absurd. You can't just pick a number because you want profit. That's the same shit facebook got into in the beginning, having a valuation which nobody could actually calculate.
My thoughts exactly. twitters value is its data and being able to measure trends and public sentiment on a scale most marketing companies can only dream about. Sure that data could be worth 20 billion but only when you find a way to package and commoditize it to the tune of 20 bill. Twitters revenue is at 500m.
Facebook is another story. They have more valuable data than twitter and the technical chops to pull off great extensions to the Facebook platform.
The thought of an outward facing ad network similar to AdWords that uses Facebook's targeting depth literally makes me hard.
People have been saying this for at least 5 years now, which really makes me wonder why they haven't gone down that road. Unless they're skurd of the Big G.
I doubt its fear of the big g. I suspect it has more to do with the public outcry over the use of private data everywhere.
The press will have a field day.
twitter has no value, its like saying craigslist is worth 20 bill. Although craigslist could probably turn mad money if they opened the ass fucking floodgates. Not so sure about twitter. At the end of the day I still dont know anyone that doesnt roll their eyes when you mention twitter. Everyone I know uses craigslist in comparison .
Some pretty big ads are hosted via Twitter my friend. No value? Wrong by a long shot. But obviously, nothing points to $20B either.