Kara Swisher

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Twitter Investors Celebrate: The Paparazzi Proof!

Well, it’s not like Twitter’s investors are Britney Spears or anything, but somehow, the $1 billion valuation of Twitter deserves a BoomTown all-lenses-shooting response.

After all, I have made much hay from taking the name of one of its founders, Biz Stone, and making lighthearted wordplay with it, especially around the idea that a business plan is sorely lacking at the microblogging hottie start-up.

As in: No-Biz-Like-No Biz Stone. Or Ain’t-Nobody’s-Biz-If-There-Is-No-Biz Stone. And, Biz Stone-Cold-Profits.

So, I rummaged around and found this perfect image of one of its money men celebrating Twitter’s recent $100 million funding.

Thus, here’s the photo proof of one Twitter investor–who looks a lot like T. Rowe Price’s Henry Ellenbogen to me–in his true state:

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The problem with the Billionaire Savior phase of the newspaper collapse has always been that billionaires don’t tend to like the kind of authority-questioning journalism that upsets the status quo.

— Ryan Chittum, writing in the Columbia Journalism Review about the promise of Pierre Omidyar’s new media venture with Glenn Greenwald