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Re: TWTR

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Post by ecoffey »

goshx wrote: post #23
stevewilhelm wrote: post #13

Yahoo! Finance is more up to date. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=twtr&ql=1

Came here to point that out. I wonder why google's is so far behind.

Different licensing and payments to get realtime stock data from the exchanges. From what I remember, if you don't pay, then you can't get anything fresher than 15 minutes ago (which is what google finance is at actually).

(I worked for a custom financial website company, and we would "service" a lot of those contracts; i.e. you buy reuters data, but don't want to consume all that yourself, so we do it for you and build out tools that you give to your customers)

Re: TWTR

#42

Post by abat »

the_watcher wrote: post #33
sc90 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlike Facebook, none of Twitters employees and VC's are selling, so no internal pressure to grab every last dollar.

There was an employee lockup of Facebook stock, if I remember correctly, so Facebook employees were not selling. Please correct me if I misunderstood something.

The lockup applies to shares on the open market after IPO. That doesn't preclude someone from participating in the IPO itself.

Re: TWTR

#43

Post by [deleted] »

legohead wrote: post #12

I don't know how these things typically work.. it started out at 46, now it's below, ~45, but it says +19.66 (75.62%)? Is that because that's the highest it was today? I would expect the +/- to be against the starting amount at any time...

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Re: TWTR

#44

Post by darrelld »

the_watcher wrote: post #36

I'm not an expert in the stock market, and the only stock I own is Facebook (which I bought a long time ago), but I am confused as to why Facebook is dropping today while there is so much enthusiasm for Twitter. Buying Twitter is basically betting on mobile advertising, which Facebook is the clear leader of. Is it possibly related to people with Facebook stock selling some to get in on Twitter? Are they entirely unre…

Not an expert either, but my guess? Facebook had its IPO hayday and Facebook is now another company listed on the market. Markets are mostly down today and Facebook is following the trend.

Twitter is a hot new IPO and people are jumping on early in the hopes of it rising in price.

Re: TWTR

#45

Post by joezydeco »

AsymetricCom wrote: post #35
joezydeco wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But the bankers come up with those magical "buy/hold/sell" recommendations that everyone else listens to and panic-sells when their advice says so. Or "oops, they missed our magically predicted revenue by one penny per share". It's all part of the game.

Which says to me that bankers are probably still holding a lot of TWTR. If that doesn't change short-term, it could poison the social network.

I believe going public poisons any company. CEOs change their vision from long-term to insanely short-term. Gotta make those quarterly numbers or they're screwed.

There have been a few exceptions to this, Apple being the most famous one. Facebook was on the same track but the SEC rules about share ownership forced their hand.

Re: TWTR

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Post by habosa »

the_watcher wrote: post #33
sc90 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlike Facebook, none of Twitters employees and VC's are selling, so no internal pressure to grab every last dollar.

There was an employee lockup of Facebook stock, if I remember correctly, so Facebook employees were not selling. Please correct me if I misunderstood something.

Many Facebook shareholders sold at the IPO. Zuckerberg sold 30M shares and other large investors with huge allocations also sold some. It was calculated, not a free-for-all.

Re: TWTR

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Post by joshmlewis »

cft wrote: post #38

Can someone advise what's the best way to buy derivatives (etrade,scottstrade, etc): the fastest way to open an account, the best order execution times? I want to invest some money to short this.

I was wondering this as well. Trading stocks always seem a little out of reach for some reason.

Re: TWTR

#48

Post by davidw »

joezydeco wrote: post #45
AsymetricCom wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which says to me that bankers are probably still holding a lot of TWTR. If that doesn't change short-term, it could poison the social network.

I believe going public poisons any company. CEOs change their vision from long-term to insanely short-term. Gotta make those quarterly numbers or they're screwed. There have been a few exceptions to this, Apple being the most famous one. Facebook was on the same track but the SEC rules about share ownership forced their hand.

Amazon has pretty weird numbers, and is public.

Re: TWTR

#49

Post by mbreese »

the_watcher wrote: post #34
Geee wrote: post #30

And... this marks the beginning of the end for Twitter as we know it.

Why do you say that? Facebook has been fine post-IPO.

Twitter is still losing money though... they haven't figured out how to make a profit. The fear is that what they'll need to do in order to make money will drive their user-base away.

Re: TWTR

#50

Post by 1945 »

jstalin wrote: post #6

Income statements: https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE%3ATWTR&fstype=ii&ei=TL... About $553 million in revenue in the last year, with spending of $668 million.

And they say this isn't another tech bubble...
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