So are you a Twitter billionaire?
Like the guy in the hat? If not, do you at least use Twitter? Now that it has had its IPO, everyone who runs the company has become an instant millionaire/billionaire.
In fact, Twitter share prices rose sharply after the initial announcement, meaning an even larger take for those involved with the opening. It’s an interesting phenomenon, since Facebook has four times as many users and Instagram is growing at a faster pace, Twitter seems to be the service that actually has the most immediate influence since it’s used for security alerts and emergency warnings, political announcements and revolutions as well as letting people know what sandwich you just ate.
Even if you’re not a billionaire just yet, do any of you by any chance use Twitter? Have an account but don’t use it? Use it a lot? Follow anyone else? These questions are important because Twitter, for all the bluster over its IPO, is not profitable and only vague promises about how it will become so have been made. Facebook did it, so perhaps Twitter can as well.