
Twitter Funding Confirmed, Amount Dubbed “Significant”
September 25th, 2009 admin

News broke yesterday about a huge new round of financing for Twitter. Word has it Twitter has received around $100 million in new venture capital from multiple investors. Although the number is unofficial, valuations of Twitter went wild and quickly rose to $1 billion. Now, Twitter has officially confirmed they’ve received financing; without disclosing the actual amount, they claim it’s “significant”. If the $100 million figure is correct, “significant” is quite an understatement, but we’ll forgive them for being modest. Here’…
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