Twitter Files For IPO

How do you tell the world world that you’re planning to go public? If you’re Twitter, you tweet it — and that’s Twitter did today. The tweet was sparse on the details, saying that Twitter “confidentially” submitted an S-1 filing to the US Securities & Exchange Commission to go public: We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 […]

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Twitter logoHow do you tell the world world that you’re planning to go public? If you’re Twitter, you tweet it — and that’s Twitter did today.

The tweet was sparse on the details, saying that Twitter “confidentially” submitted an S-1 filing to the US Securities & Exchange Commission to go public:

The “confidential” part is apparently in reference to new rules that allow companies with less than $1 billion in revenue to go public yet delay the release of their financial documents until three weeks before the traditional “road show” of shopping the company to prospective investors and bankers, The Verge notes.

Bloomberg News has tweeted that Goldman Sachs will be the lead underwriter in the offering.

We’ll update more when we hear it, including when the actual documents surface, as they will eventually. They should provide revealing insights into Twitter’s business. You can also watch for breaking developments here on Techmeme.


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Danny Sullivan was a journalist and analyst who covered the digital and search marketing space from 1996 through 2017. He was also a cofounder of Third Door Media, which publishes Search Engine Land, MarTech, and produces the SMX: Search Marketing Expo and MarTech events. He retired from journalism and Third Door Media in June 2017. You can learn more about him on his personal site & blog He can also be found on Facebook and Twitter.

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