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Twitter’s IPO filing was made public on 3October 2013 and here is how Twitterverse teared FORM S-1 and tweeted real numbers, or statistics related to company!

What is Twitter?

"Twitter is a global platform for public self-expression and conversation in real time," it says in the S-1. So now you know. $TWTR

— Tim Bradshaw (@tim) October 3, 2013

Active Users and Tweets

S-1 factoid – more than 300bn tweets have been posted to date $TWTR

— Tim Bradshaw (@tim) October 3, 2013

Twitter says it sees 215 million monthly active users, 100 million daily users, 500 million tweets per day http://t.co/mfQO14XT5f by @epro

— TNW Twit (@tnwtwit) October 3, 2013

Mobile Users

75 percent of Twitter's daily active users access the site on a mobile device. http://t.co/SIneY9TsbO

— ಠ_ಠ (@MikeIsaac) October 3, 2013

Revenue

Profit and Loss

Twitter revenue in 2012: $316m (up from $106m in 2011). Pre-tax loss: $79m (cf $129m in 2011).

— Charles Arthur (@charlesarthur) October 3, 2013

Twitter: Revenue of $317M and net loss of $79M in 2012. $254M in revenue and net loss of $69M in first half of 2013.

— Andy Vuong (@andyvuong) October 3, 2013

Revenue Streams

Twitter says 97% of its revenue comes from advertising in 2013 compared to 85% in 2012

— Emily Chang (@emilychangtv) October 3, 2013

Twitter's S-1 proved that it is already a mobile-first company: 65% of Twitter's ad revenue comes from mobile products.

— TweepForce (@tweepforce) October 4, 2013

Revenue per User

Twitter said its ad revenue "per 1,000 timeline views" was $2.17 in the second quarter in the U.S. and $0.30 in the rest of the world!

— Shashank (@ItisSG) October 4, 2013

Twitter makes 55 cents per user per quarter. Compared with Facebook at $1.41. Your data is stupidly cheap. http://t.co/zJo92NerJg

— Sean Gourley (@sgourley) October 4, 2013

Twitter IPO Valuation

Twitter discloses IPO plans; looks to raise $1 billion, plans to trade under symbol $TWTR

— The Times of London (@thetimes) October 3, 2013

Share Distribution

CEO Dick Costolo owns 1.6% of @Twitter while Jack Dorsey owns 4.9%, Evan Williams 12.0%, and Peter Fenton owns 6.7%. $TWTR

— CNBC (@CNBC) October 3, 2013

Staff/Employees

Twitter says that it has gained over 900 employees in the year since June 2012, an increase of 90%. It currently employs over 2,000 people.

— Shashank (@ItisSG) October 4, 2013

Twitter Makes Less Than $250K Per Employee…less than FB, Yahoo, and Zynga http://t.co/agGSpIO5Ou

— Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel) October 3, 2013

What is not disclosed?

Currently, the filing does not list a valuation, and sources are saying that’s because they have yet to determine one http://t.co/7j9p35uwB7

— TweepForce (@tweepforce) October 4, 2013

@benparr There still is a question on how many users they have. Active bots aren't users and fake accounts can be set up to post.

— Ryan J Negri (@RyanNegri) October 3, 2013