What’s The Street Price Of Twitter? Nearly $1.6 Billion

Why do people keep saying Twitter is revenue-free? It has search integration deals, sponsored topics and promoted tweets. It may not be profitable, but it certainly has non-trivial revenue at this point.

Worse yet, I was under the impression that the search deals are lucrative enough that they are profitable in the more-than-breaking-even sense.

That was true, but I think they have hired extensively since then.

"Why do people keep saying Twitter is revenue-free?"

It's TechCrunch, what do you expect?

It's the same crowd that says "What do I care about tweets about what people are eating for lunch?"

I figure they're people won't make very good founders and move on.

To know about 'intrinsic' value of a consumer tool (like FB or Twitter), I usually ask people - would you pay, say $1 per month to continue using the tool, if the payment process was very easy and invisible to you.

I hear a yes from most FB and Twitter users. That I think speaks very loudly about the value of these two tools.

doubtful.

hell Myspace was bought for a 1/3 of that, and I'd say they were a lot more viable back then. I'm pretty sure they actually had revenue.