Business & Tech

Twitter Goes Public This Morning, Are You in?

The social media giant is set to start trading Thursday morning.

By Liz Taurasi

When the markets open Thursday morning, Twitter will be 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 is set to begin trading Thursday morning when the market opens at 9:30 a.m. under the symbol “TWTR.” 

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You can watch live updates on the stock’s opening day performance on the Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch page.

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