356:. thank you. that is what i'm trying to say. it is my understanding that wikipedia is a resource. i thought that meant the more information you had on an article, especially the history of the business, the more resourceful the article was. i added in the funding actually based off the Twitter article to add more history to the company itself. not as a claim of importance. I feel that the Storyz article is being misunderstood.
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Capital backed Twitter in 2009, investing an additional $ 35 million.The Industry Standard has pointed to its lack of revenue as limiting its long-term viability. On February 13, 2009, Twitter announced on its official blog that it had closed a third round of funding in which it secured more than $ 35 million When asked about how he was going to use the additional investment funds in an interview, Williams said:
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We don't know all the ways we're going to use that money, hopefully we'll keep a lot of it in the bank. If we never need a lot of it, that's great, but in the climate we're in we don't want to assume too much, and we don't want any short term concerns to distort the potential of our long term vision,
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Twitter is owned by venture capitalists. CEO Evan Williams raised about $ 22 million in venture capital. Twitter is backed by Union Square Ventures, Digital Garage, Spark Capital, and Bezos Expeditions (led by Jeff Bezos of Amazon). Institutional Venture Partners and
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Best I can figure is that she's saying that like
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Finance and Wash. Post, seem to just be reprinting an article from "mocoNews.net", and I can't tell of that's a press release or what. The other prose sources trace back to mediapost.com, and also could be press releases. Technically, this probably isn't speedy
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