Facebook was in serious negotiations for aquiring Twitter that fell through when the source of funding was in the form of Facebook stocks (which are valued at 8-9 billion). Twitter did their homework and found facebook employees selling it with a valuation of 2-5 billion and decided to pass on the 500 million offer. Here's the article http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/mar2009/tc2009031_743025.htm I find it EXTREMELY interesting that two internet companies WITHOUT a business model to be arguing over how much each is worth. Both have traffic, yes, but neither has been able to monetize their sites very well yet.
Facebook actually lost money last year (estimates vary), which is amazing when you consider how many members they have. ps. Thank you, for posting this.
Twitter felt that Facebook was treating them like children.. I like comments like that, in other words "You bid to low, now dont come back again" gemini181 Facebook loses money, Youtube loses money, digg and many more. Yet theirs websites selling ebooks that say they became millionaires over night. 5+5=2
It's funny to see how much facebook dropped . It went from a strict "15 billion"( wich was funny at the time) to "1.5 billion", wich is still funny because Facebook is not monetizing the website that much to get this valuation. Anyways Gl to facebook.
Many of those web 2.0 startups have lost money for the first few years. Facebook has had a prolonged losing streak but is still valued pretty high.
everyone is trying to copy the ebay skype buy which was a total failure to being with... all the money is liquid. BUT fb did offerr 100$ mil in hard cash, twitter didnt take I.D.I.O.T.S.!