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