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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by imagist on Friday September 23, 2016 @03:23PM (#12567264)
The number I cited was their claimed active users.

I'm not sure why you consider $29 per human user a steal. There are two sides to a transaction--what you pay and what you get for it. What exactly do you think investors are getting for their money here?

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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by astrodust on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:05PM (#12567544)
Just compared to other industry metrics.
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by imagist on Saturday September 24, 2016 @08:19PM (#12573232)
That's exactly why we're in a bubble. "Because other people are paying even more" is a really bad reason to pay too much for something. But that's the entire basis of Twitter's price--it's people investing in Twitter because other people are investing in Twitter (and other such companies) with no concern for whether that investment will ever return a profit.
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by jhall1468 on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:25PM (#12567685)
So you pulled it out of thin air?
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Re:Twitter may receive formal bid, suitors said to include S... by astrodust on Friday September 23, 2016 @04:28PM (#12567709)
No. Look at the citations others have made within this thread. A rule of thumb is generally anywhere from $50 to $200 per head for social network type applications. See also: Facebook, MySpace, Instagram, etc.
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