I can see my brother cringing now — I am giving financial advice. I can’t help myself. I just read that Twitter raised its IPO price range to $23-25. That means the the social network stock is in high demand. I can’t just look away. I had to discuss this opportunity with you. The books on the initial offering may have closed today, and the shares start trading this Thursday. But you can still buy at a relatively low price when it starts trading, and it should rise fast.
No one knows how well this stock will do, but investors are betting that a company that lost $133.9 million in the first nine months of 2013 is worth $13.6 billion. Most folks in the digital community feel Twitter has a young, large, and influential user base that has positively impacted the world so far and will continue to do so in ways that haven’t even been explored as yet. The potential is huge. Twitter is considered the social media darling.
In my non-expert opinion, the stock could possibly be another Apple. People made fortunes on Apple. However, those that couldn’t stand the stock’s volatility pulled out their money before it reached its peak. If you are not a risk taker and freak easily, don’t buy. This is a long term investment.
To be listed on The New York Stock Exchange, the ticker symbol will be TWTR. Good luck!!!!
DigiDame 
Unless you are fortunate enough to be a large client of Goldman Sachs or one of the other investment bank underwriters for the Twitter IPO, it may be best to sit on the sidelines with an investment in Twitter shares. The Twitter hype is so great that by the time Twitter opens for trading for thee general public, it will pop to over $40/share and likely even higher. At this price, Twitter would have a nosebleed valuation. Let’s not forget that Facebook debuted with an IPO price of $38/share and hit a high of $45/share on its 1st day of trading. But reality and sanity finally set in and Facebook shares dropped to $18/share and it took a year before Facebook regained its $38/share original IPO price. I agree that Twitter is a long term investment and should be treated as such. But I believe that you will have an opportunity to buy Twitter at a more reasonable valuation in the next 6 months as it finds its way on how to best monetize its service.
Excellent advice, thanks.
Be careful! Try to figure out how they will make money. What will they do with the proceeds of the offering? Also, talk to young people. Really young people. Will they continue to use Twitter a few years from now when it is part of the establishment? There is already a movement that is dissing hashtags. They are considered to be uncool.
Hmmm…..I’m sure this is being discussed on Twitter.
Buy high ….sell low?