Twitter Owns Its Venture Capital Fund

Twitter at this stage on inconsistency is offering funding to promising startups.

Twitter Inc., the social media giant is not doing well in the market where it has been constantly victimized for competing with Facebook who is far ahead of them in the league.  Apart from this, the recent flair in the number of harassment cases reported has also added to their misery. The company at this stage is dealing with several internal and external issues that can result in making survival difficult for them.

It has only been 18 months since TWTR has established its image as public company. At this stage, the company is in a phase of hyper growth and is currently not generating revenues but is more inclined towards losses. However, even then the company is extremely occupied in giving money to other firms through venture capital funding.

The Twitter Ventures arm, the company’s project was one of the few investors in an event that accumulated $80 million so that they can fund Cyanogen- who considers itself to be “a leading mobile operating system pure-play.”

This news was reported by the Wall Street Journal where other investors in the funding included Qualcomm, the popular chipmaker, Rupert Murdoch: the owner of Wall Street Journal and Media Baron

However, Twitter venture arm unit is not much of a surprise for market. Anthony Noto, the former banker at Goldman Sachs helf the position as the chief financial officer in FY14. The person who became the predecessor, Mike Gupta was actually moved to look after the strategic investment sector.

Like Google and Intel, Twitter also wishes to play its part in providing funds to startups that seem to be promising. The company currently plans to invest only small sums on money in such startups.

This encouragement which Twitter has experienced has resulted in strict scrutiny by regulators. The reason behind this is that the company is not so stable itself that it starts to fund other ventures. At one point it is in a loss making stage and the other it is investing in other startups. However, the company has declined to comment over the matter. Thus, nobody really knows what the intentions of the company actually are currently.

The company is taking several steps to make its way to redemption. However, at this stage it is fairly unreasonable to offer funds. Nobody can predict what law enforcement agencies have to say about this matter but one thing remains clear. Twitter’s strategy is not something easy to predict and foretell what they actually want to do in the times to come.  Twitter Stock are likely to be affected by this move

Twitter contributing to Football Association’s (FA) revenues

With the passage of time, twitter is becoming popular enormously and the people using and tweeting every day is increasing rapidly. This social network is basically used to write whatever a person wants without keeping any audience in mind. From a common man to celebrities, athletes, scholars, and other popular people are fond of being on twitter and using it to either give some news about their respective field or share whatever they would want to. 

When it comes to athletes, basically soccer, twitter is one of the most used social media network on which they are active. And without a doubt, there have been many arguments and fights over this medium between different soccer players as well as pundits. However, twitter has been contributing and has become a tidy revenue stream for the Football Association. Guardian reports that “The FA has made about £350,000 from fining players for social media related offenses since 2011.” Hence, this can be considered as the easiest way this organization can have to earn revenues and as for the soccer players, it can be the stupidest way to lost money paying small or large amount of fines.

The Queens Park Rangers defender, Rio Ferdinand was the recent victim of the FA to be fined over twitter abuse. Ferdinand was fined about £25,000 and banned for three matches for his tweet which included a word “sket”. “Sket” is a Caribbean slang for “whore”. Yahoo! Sports reports that “Ferdinand is the 12th player to be suspended for a social media offense. This is also his second TWTR fine. The first came in 2012 when he re-tweeted a message from another user that called Ashley Cole a "choc ice."

According to Guardian, the FA has investigated 121 social media cases in the last three years and 60 of those investigations have led to charges. Before Rio Ferdinand, there have been many other players such as Ashley Cole, who was largest fined player on twitter of £90,000 for insulting the FA itself that same year.

Hence in a nutshell, it is true there will be more use of this social media network, people will keep on tweeting about whatever they feel like. Therefore it is true that twitter fines have become the easiest and tidiest revenue stream for Football Association (FA).

Twitter A Shortcut To Catch Up With A Large Audience

Still, there are many people who are misunderstanding the purpose of TWTR and due to this misconception people are thinking and considering that having a twitter account is futile. But the fact is using twitter and having your personal account there have different benefits.

Each of us has had and still living a different life, with unique hobbies & passion. This has made us known as a specialized species. Let's take a look. What if we all get a chance to peek in each others mind and share our opinions related to the roads we have never travelled? Well with twitter now it's possible.

Twitter (TWTR) is a skeleton, which can be managed by us. As a user we bring twitter to life. On this platform, we can share everything, which we have on our minds. On this social media forum we can talk about anything and this could result in as a tool of distilling understanding of the world into the most absorb able format.

Imagine a scientist, reading and exploring more about the new advanced technology all day. Via TWTR it has been possible for themselves to share their research with the world and the most challenging part of them in this entire sharing process is to compress what they have researched from the past days into 140 characters and tweet them on this social networking site. This is one perfect example for us to believe how Twitter could be useful and how sharing your thoughts with the world could be so simple and effective.

Ever visualizing these facts, we all know that these tweets won’t make us high tech experts in all areas, but the fact is in this competitive environment we don’t have time to hold the details of everything. Twitter has been a path and a shortcut and the best alternative for sharing your views and reading with a large audience in no time.