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Can I ask another question:

Is twitter profitable yet? Has it a roadmap to profitability?

Twitter has 170 employees. Assuming fully loaded cost of 150 k that is approximate $ 30 mill pee annum

The google and bing deals are worth 50mill leaving 20mill to cover other costs like iron and bandwidth. My sense is clearly profitable. A

According to their "Team list" on Twitter they have 241 employees (http://twitter.com/twitter/team)