No IPO and Price Tag for Twitter

Twitter CEO, Dick Costolo, discussed the future of Twitter as a business, the company's plans for the coming years, and how it aims on growing in the mainstream at CES 2011.
During the CES 2011, Twitter CEO – Dick Costolo – discussed the basic company business plans for Twitter and its future. According to the CEO, Twitter has grown quickly during the Q4 of 2010. And with the company’s recently raised $200 million in funding, Twitter will neither be for sale nor will it go public. Dick Costolo sincerely hopes that Twitter will become a successful independent company.
More over, Costolo explained its very simple business plan: While Twitter is a technology company, its model is advertising-based. The key to its plan is the way ads are taken out to the market as an advertising content. Another is to enable users to embed Tweets in a way that they can directly interact on other sites. This includes replying, retweeting, following the sender, and many more.
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