万花筒 2013-09-15&09-18 推特宣布提交IPO申请

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Twitter announced on Twitter that it's filed for an IPO. The filing is under wraps due to a provision in the U.S. Jobs Act that allows companies with under a billion dollars in annual revenues to do so confidentially³. 

In just 7 years time the micro-blog has been the go-to form of communication in the tech age. Billionaire investor¹ Carl Icahn uses it to dispense⁴ investment tips, stars like Kim Kardashian keeps her hungry fans informed via her tweets, and even President Obama sends out a Tweet every now and then, signed "BO", to his more than 36 million followers⁵, according to Twitter Counter. 

Wall Street has been hungry for this as it lays aside the bruising⁶ it took from the Facebook IPO. As of late, analysts⁷ have been tripping over themselves to raise their price target on that social network, sending its shares to post-IPO highs.

Now it looks like the social network love affair is back on. Twitter is worth more than $10 billion, according to estimates by private investors; on track to rake in more than half-a-billion dollars in revenues by the end of the year, according to eMarketer. 

Goldmam Sachs takes home the big prize, sources say - beating out the rest of Wall Street to bring this highly-anticipated IPO to market.

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