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

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 — 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 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 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...

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