O valor do Facebook e do Twitter
A partir da última rodada de investimentos feito pelo Facebook num total de 200 milhões a ferramenta foi avaliada em Us$ 10 bilhões. A pergunta seguinte é: quanto vale o Twitter.
Uma matéria publicada no Techcrunch tenta identificar o valor da ferramenta Twitter. ” Twitter turned down $500 million from Facebook late last year, and founder Evan Williams might not even sell it for $1 billion. But how about for $1.7 billion? That is the valuation we come up with when we run Twitter’s numbers through our new social network valuation model. The model takes into account the size of each social network’s audience in different countries and the average online spending per capita in those countries. Using Facebook’s $10 billion valuation as a baseline, Twitter would be the fourth most valuable social network after MySpace ($6.5 billion) and Bebo ($1.8 billion). Of course, that $10 billion valuation was for preferred shares, so $1.7 billion might be a valuation a strategic investor or acquirer would be willing to place on Twitter. If you use the $4 billion to $6 billion range Facebook’s common stock is being valued at in private sales, then Twitter’s valuation would come down to $671 million to $1 billion. And if you use Bebo’s 2008 valuation of $850 million as a benchmark instead, Twitter would be worth $781 million. So there is your range: roughly $700 million to $1.7 billion”
