Twitter Investors Celebrate: The Paparazzi Proof!
by Kara Swisher
Posted on September 28, 2009 at 9:30 AM PT
Well, it’s not like Twitter’s investors are Britney Spears or anything, but somehow, the $1 billion valuation of Twitter deserves a BoomTown all-lenses-shooting response.
After all, I have made much hay from taking the name of one of its founders, Biz Stone, and making lighthearted wordplay with it, especially around the idea that a business plan is sorely lacking at the microblogging hottie start-up.
As in: No-Biz-Like-No Biz Stone. Or Ain’t-Nobody’s-Biz-If-There-Is-No-Biz Stone. And, Biz Stone-Cold-Profits.
So, I rummaged around and found this perfect image of one of its money men celebrating Twitter’s recent $100 million funding.
Thus, here’s the photo proof of one Twitter investor–who looks a lot like T. Rowe Price’s Henry Ellenbogen to me–in his true state:
Comments
I can’t help but see the only way out of this is for them to be acquired just for their user base, not the actual function of the product. Many companies could re-invent this technology in their spare time, but Twitter has an attractive critical mass.
Everyone I know that has an ID has one “just in case” the product turns into something useful, but so far, not so much.
Judging by the number of unsolicited “hotties” that have followed me out of the blue (and in spite of my grand total of two tweets), I assume my ID has been written on a bathroom wall somewhere.
Maybe the business plan isn’t easily discussed in mixed company.
Posted by Mac Beach at September 28th, 2009 at 12:27 pmi have a twitter id and no updates on it yet continue to get ‘followers’ which indicates to me that automated bots are signing accounts up on their own…which means nobody is *really* using twitter as much as twitter claims…
Posted by Sam Harrison at October 1st, 2009 at 2:29 pm