I found Claire Choi’s recent blog- “Seeking the right timing for Twitter IPO” to be very interesting and relevant. I believe that twitter’s main “Point of Difference” is the fact that it has created a platform in which ordinary people can interact with famous celebrities, along with their friends of course. I think that this celebrity interaction feature has really been a boon to the social networking website. I agree with Claire, twitter should not have an IPO anytime soon, this is because I think that many investors will be hesitant and unwilling to buy shares of another social networking website, in fear of another over -valuation of the stocks, and rapid decline of the stock’s value. I think that this over-valuation fear will apply to most websites looking to go public in the near future, as investor’s will look to put their money on ‘safe bets’ in an already poor economy.
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