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Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

William Bryant — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:10:18 -0000

I read that article too, it is really hard to decipher what the heck a tech company like this is worth. Truth be told, to a lot of companies out there marketing products Twitter is worth a lot of money to them. However, will spam take away all the good?

via http://twitterpublic.com

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

howardlindzon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:39:02 -0000

You can't please everyone. I really think open can be taken way to far
Too many startips and vc's want 100 million-500 million businesses. Thank god for me but stilll...

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

Alex Hawkinson — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:34:14 -0000

If they did that it might discourage the vibrant 3rd party ecosystem that is building around their API. I think it's actually to their advantage to continue to encourage rapid innovation around the platform by a multitude of 3rd parties, all of which feed the growth of the platform itself.

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

howardlindzon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:08 -0000

Agreed

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

howardlindzon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:33:07 -0000

Thx

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

howardlindzon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:29:04 -0000

They really should buy bitly tweetdeck and stocktwits already. I would be running it much differenetly but we all would

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

ivanhoff — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:13:38 -0000

$TWIT is already taken. It's the symbol for the technology index in Taiwan. Curiously, it is up about 50% YTD.
I can't wait for $FBOOK to become publicly traded. I expect it to reach a market cap of $15 to 25 billion within the first year of its IPO.
In its current model, $TWIT is still far from a 9 figure market cap company. If they find a way to incorporate all Twitter based applications into their business model, things will look different.

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

Alex Hawkinson — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:08:35 -0000

As I said here http://bit.ly/iqugL in response to Scoble’s post, it's not that Twitter is the be-all-end-all tool. It's just that if it is used properly it can become the constantly in motion "front line" where your business (or your individual) interests can connect with other relevant people in the world who you are not yet connected to. That’s a powerful value. We have found then that it needs to be integrated with a deeper web presence (like what we’re attempting to do with www.cloudprofile.com) that blends Twitter with other forms of content and engagement tools that can flow across the web for other forms of interaction (Facebook, e-commerce, etc.). Twitter and open, publicly available micro-blogging is becoming and will remain an important part of the equation. The value is still up in the air, but it's going to be big.

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

C. Beanie — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:59:53 -0000

If one strips out the stock market aspect of twitter (which can be quite valuable to stock lovers because stock guys love communicating with other stock guys), then one can argue from a better standpoint of how underhyped or overhyped twitter really is. http://technologizer.com/20... I think the first guy makes some great points.

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

howardlindzon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:30:02 -0000

You can do better than that

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

C. Beanie — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:15:16 -0000

Twitter and Facebook could be overhyped, due to the fact that we now have fantasy symbols for them. :)

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

howardlindzon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:48:08 -0000

phew...now i can realx

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

vruz — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:42:30 -0000

LOL!

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

howardlindzon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:39:04 -0000

i am definitely not tied to $ sign as i want to keep noise down. i ike
exclamation point AFTER the symbol.... TWIT! FBOOK!

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

chartreuse — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:38:45 -0000

Hey I remember that site...it was popular for a minute. I didn't even realize it was still around. I think they were bought by some financial company if i remember right.

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

vruz — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:33:14 -0000

it's troublesome too... there should be a registry of symbols and some sort of verification to make sure the symbol corresponds to a trusted party. (sort of the way Twitter allows for trusted accounts)

in any case, let it be known that I hereby reserve %VRUZ for myself :-)

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

vruz — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:30:26 -0000

definitely, they have huge crap to worry about.
for some reason it still feels wrong to me to mix fantasy stocks with real ones.
how about a different syntax for fantasy stocks like %TWIT or something to that effect?

I agree there should be an index of private companies, and an all-private section to compare and graph private stocks.

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

howardlindzon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:26:05 -0000

I am talking about a tag and a way to organize peoples links and opinions about hottest private web and alt energy biznesses.

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

howardlindzon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:24:03 -0000

Will take a look. Thx

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

howardlindzon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:24:02 -0000

Doubt it. Don't they have real crap to worry about. Seriously

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

howardlindzon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:23:04 -0000

Well 5 bil is ridiculous.

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

dnarby — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:41:51 -0000

It's worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it.

Is 5B a firm offer? I think not.

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

vruz — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:38:45 -0000

would the SEC have something to say about the Fantasy Stock Market mixing with the real one?
:-)

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

Jeff DiStanlo — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:28:58 -0000

remember this?

http://www.hsx.com/

was really popular for a while back in late 90s.

Re: What are $TWIT (Twitter) and $FBOOK (Facebook) Worth

howardlindzon — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 12:49:05 -0000

Comimg soon