Business & Tech

Twitter Goes Public Today, Are You in?

The social media giant started trading Thursday morning.

When the markets opened Thursday morning, Twitter became a publicly traded company.

Twitter is going public with shares priced at $26. At that price, the value of the company is reported to be in the $18.24 billion range.

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Twitter Inc. originally planned to price shares between $17 and $20 for its IPO, according to Boston.com. The company raised the range on Monday to $23-$25 per share.

Twitter began trading Thursday morning under the symbol “TWTR.” 

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