Twitter Goes Public This Morning, Are You in?

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

Posted Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:34 am ET

Written 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.

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.”

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

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