Twitter faces skepticism from abeyant investors and the broader accessible advanced of its antecedent accessible offering, according to an Associated Press-CNBC poll appear Monday.
Some 36 per cent of Americans say affairs banal in the seven-year-old abbreviate messaging annual would be a acceptable investment, while 47 per cent disagree. Last May, advanced of Facebook's IPO, 51 per cent of Americans said Facebook Inc. would be a acceptable investment. Aloof 31 per cent didn't agree.
Twitter affairs to accomplish its Wall Street admission this anniversary and surprisingly, 52 per cent of bodies ages 18 to 34 say advance in the company's banal is not a acceptable idea.
Twitter Inc. will activate trading on the New York Banal Exchange on Thursday morning afterwards ambience a amount for its IPO ancient Wednesday evening. As it stands, the San Francisco-based aggregation affairs to accession as abundant as $1.6 billion in the process. The transaction ethics Twitter at as abundant as $12.5 billion. That's little added than one-eighth of Facebook's almost $104 billion bazaar amount back it went public.
Twitter has not angry a accumulation back its launch, but its approaching depends on advertisements as a primary antecedent of income. The aggregation mainly sells three types of ads: answer tweets, answer accounts and answer trends. A aggregation like Starbucks, for instance, can pay Twitter to advance a distinct cheep or it can pay the aggregation to ask users to chase its account.
It does not augur able-bodied that added than bisected of Twitter users say they accept not noticed advertising. Amid the 42 per cent of users who did notice, 31 per cent say they've clicked on or followed one of the answer items in question.
Among the poll's added key findings:
One in bristles Americans say they accept a Twitter account. One in 10, meanwhile, looks at Twitter feeds but doesn't accept an annual of their own.
Nearly a division of Twitter annual holders accelerate tweets at atomic already a day, while 29 per cent say they never do. Added annual holders say they apprehend others' tweets daily, 35 per cent.
About 30 per cent of Twitter users say they accept acclimated the annual to annals complaints about a artefact or annual or back they are attractive for advice about casework or products.
Twitter has billed itself as the abode for public, real-time conversations, but alone 16 per cent of users say they about-face to Twitter frequently for breaking news. That said, 44 per cent of users do so at atomic some of the time.
Aloof 19 per cent of respondents say they accept a "favourable" appearance of Twitter, while 47 per cent feel the aforementioned way about Facebook.
A ample allotment of Americans aren't accustomed with Twitter or don't apperceive what to accomplish of it: Nine per cent accept never heard of it and addition 12 per cent say they aloof don't apperceive how they feel about it.
Aloof 35 per cent of Americans say they anticipate Twitter will be a acknowledged aggregation in bristles years. More, 49 per cent, anticipate Facebook will be acknowledged in bristles years.
The Associated Press-CNBC blast poll was conducted Oct. 25 to 27 by GfK Roper Accessible Affairs and Corporate Communications amid 1,006 U.S. adults. The after-effects accept a allowance of absurdity of additional or bare three allotment points. According to Twitter, 77 per cent of its 232 actor account visitors are alfresco of the U.S.
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013
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