Inside Twitter's Efforts to Keep Calm on the Post-IPO Roller Coaster

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Inside Twitter's Efforts to Keep Calm on the Post-IPO Roller Coaster
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In just six short months, Twitter stock holders have been treated to the full, unpredictable Wall Street experience

First the stock surged (https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:TWTR&sa=X&ei=_gxxU6q5FoTm8AXYnIHgAQ&ved=0CCgQ2AEwAA) — big time — jumping from an IPO price of $26 per share in **vember to more than $70 per share by Christmas Eve. Then came concerns over user growth and profitability, paving the way for a stock decline that eliminated more than half the company's value in a three-month period. By the time Twitter (http://mashable.com/category/twitter/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss) employees were able to sell their shares, six months after IPO, stock price per share was hovering around $30

Response has been predictably hysterical; The Atlantic went so far as to pen a eulogy (http://www.theatlantic.com/tech**logy/archive/2014/04/a-eulogy-for-twitter/361339/) for the microblogging service. But of the many people surprised by Twitter's recent stock market struggles, there was at least one person expecting it: CEO Dick Costolo Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/14/twitter-post-ipo-dick-costolo-stock/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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