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Ahead of Twitter's IPO filing, the key figure anticipated by investors was the company's average revenue per user. But when the time came, Twitter didn't disclose it. Instead, Twitter revealed data about how often users view their timeline, or stream of tweets, and how much Twitter earns for every 1,000 timeline views. Those unusual metrics make...

Ritchie over at Quartz did this nice calc. NIce one, Ritch!

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Craig Ferguson on the beeb

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I love watching hugress (hubris in progress).

Oh, Chip.

(via http://www.piccsy.com)

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Twitter shares soar in early trading Thursday as investors scrambled to get a piece of what they hope will be the next blockbuster social media company after Facebook and LinkedIn

Twitter priced at $26, first trade at $45.10. Let's see if it closes around 100% up -- around $100. And then tomorrow it'll be shorted to $35. We'll see.

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If you're not using the lightbeam browser add-on, you don't know who's tracking you. Get it now. Trés trés cool.

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Explore our graphical guide to the advances of the future, from 2013 to 2150.

wonderful

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Let's vote on the motion to vote on setting up a committee to vote on the motion.

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If it's a Yanor IPO, the CFO will be ready.

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You Gotta Love a Good Apology

Rob Ford just gave one of the best apologies. Ever.

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I didn't know this magazine was still around. Sweet.

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Twitter IPO: a classic set-up

So what happens when a company goes public is the banks up the indicative "range" while the company is on the roadshow.

In Twitter's case, they upped the range to $20-25 -- which is actually a large range that tells me there is a lot of interest. On the last hour of the Roadshow, Twitter will have a "pricing call". That's when all of the investors put in their final orders and firm up pricing. Then an official price is affixed to the IPO, which is generally higher than the range. 

Then, the shares take off on the first day of trading. The stock exhange will delay the opening so that the trading units and affiliated institutional sales can coordinate the buy and sell orders in an economically beneficial way -- generally they link a slew of sell orders together (they are "market" orders -- not limit orders so they can use them to "short" the heck out of the opening).

But what the question really is: will the new shares stay in the stratosphere?

Tesla didn't.

Trulia didn't.

Facebook didn't.

Zillow didn't.

Zynga didn't.

Jim Cramer's own IPO didn't.

A lot of IPOs just go up and come right back down. It's the way the trading units make a killing. It's just the way it works.

Few IPOs actually stay up on a sustained basis. Yanor's book explains everything.

LinkedIn was one of the few firms that was successful at keeping its share price up in the weeks and months that followed their IPO.

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reddit: the front page of the internet

HARPER isn't answering direct question after direct question. Uh oh.

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With 2.1 million acres of formerly producing properties in Germany, the CEO of PRD Energy provides an operational update. Video content courtesy of The Casey Energy Report (c) 2013. (PRD.TSX-V) or (PRD.CSV)

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November 3: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/03/peers-train-derailment-cn_n_4208636.html Sep. 13 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-derailment-protesters-gather-after-cp-fail-1.1706246 July 6, 2013 Lac Megantic

WTF is going on in Canada with all of these train disasters? Could it be hooliganism?