Twitter will made its long-anticipated S1 filing public today.
Our S-1 will be filed publicly with the SEC momentarily. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.
— Twitter (@twitter) October 3, 2013
The social network informed the world that it would go public with, of course, a tweet about three weeks ago. At the time, a Twitter investor told me he expected the actual IPO within three months, and numerous reports have the company making the IPO documentation public today.
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The S-1 will reveal a mass of data that has not yet been known about the company, such as details on revenue and costs that Twitter, as a private company, never had to reveal. I have, of course, asked my contacts at Twitter PR about this report, and they, of course, have not yet commented.
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