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This. I have no doubt one of the aforementioned suitors, or some other, will conveniently step forward and strike a deal with Twitter in the $20-30 per share range.

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I think you're right, but $20 - $30 is waaay too big an estimate here. I think its more like $20-24.

...maybe a foreign company at this point...

How do you justify that price, though? It involves a whole lot of growth that isn't really there. Google and FB are probably the only companies that could turn Twitter profitable, but probably only at a point that justifies a sale price of around $15.

A lot of people think that twitter could relatively easily be made profitable by significantly cutting engineering staff.

http://brontecapital.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/some-comment-on-...

Yea, people miss the fail whale.

Pretty sure that Google or Facebook could handle the scale Twitter operates at without the same headcount.

If I had google behind me, I could also leverage ridiculous technology. Both are larger than I am (and twitter is), so this is not surprising.

The vast majority of current twitter engineers have nothing to do with keeping fail whales at bay.

Isn't that the whole point of hiring engineers? To keep your service running? It's not going to maintain itself.

Isn't that the whole point of hiring engineers?

No. If all twitter cared about was keeping the existing service running they could do it with 1/10th the current technical staff.

I will bet you $500 that this doesn't happen within the next 90 days.

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