Hey, Over Here, Everyone Plotzing Over Twitter Funding! “Aarrr,” It’s Facebook
Fri, Feb 13th, 2009 |
Nobody but nobody releases news late Friday afternoon before a holiday weekend, unless they are trying to do a PR pirate raid on another company.
So it was nice to see Facebook, which tried and failed to buy Twitter, having the moxie to release impressive user numbers for the fast-growing social networking site, just as all the oxygen was getting sucked out of the media room by the news that the microblogging start-up got $35 million in new funding and a $250 million valuation.
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