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Twitter Guys: We’ll Still Be Running This Company in Five Years

Peter Kafka in D7 on May 26, 2009 at 6:49 pm PT

Meet the Internet’s It Boys: Twitter co-founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone. A year ago, their “micromessaging” platform was unknown outside of a small circle of digerati. Now the service has broken through to the mainstream, or at least to the mainstream media (thanks, Oprah!). But while Twitter has no problem generating attention, it’s still unclear how the company will actually generate revenue. Or maybe it doesn’t need to do that: Last year, Facebook offered to buy Twitter for $500 million in cash and stock, and the service could presumably garner a much higher price today. Or at least that’s what its investors may be hoping for.