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Twitter announced a few weeks back that it had filed a S-1 form confidentially with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The form lists various details about a company’s business, including its financial details, and its filing is mandatory before a company seeks to go public. Twitter IPO is expected to be the second biggest tech IPO in recent times, after Facebook went public last year. Twitter has now made its IPO filing public, revealing that it hopes to raise $1 billion by puttings its shares for trading on the open market.

The S-1 filing also indicates that Twitter has 215 million monthly active users and that in the first six months of 2013, it brought in $253.6 million revenue. Twitter hasn’t made a profit though, its net loss has actually increased by 41 percent and now stands at $69.3 million. The reason why Twitter confidentially made the filing first is because it wanted to suppress the unnecessary hype that would have created, the JOBS act awards this luxury to emerging companies. The filing was actually made back in July, Twitter kept a lid on it until September. The lead underwriter for Twitter IPO is Goldman Sachs, while a number of other major financial institutions are involved as well. Since its now in the public domain, anyone can read the Twitter IPO filing, it will be a particularly interesting read for those who would be willing to invest in Twitter stock once it becomes available for purchase.

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Hey, so remember Facebook Home? Yeah, probably not. Which isn’t surprising considering it wasn’t much more than Zuck’s half-baked attempt at getting his eager fingers into the phone market. But now, Home wants to be relevant once again for the first time by bringing in all your other favorite social media accounts—you know, everything that’s not Twitter.

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Want to embed your Instagram photos directly into your tweets? We show you how to do it.

If you think that kids today are going to have screwed up childhoods because all they care about is playing with their phones or keeping up with friends on Facebook or shooting people in video games, well, there’s still hope! Comedian Mark Malkoff sat down and talked with some kids about social media and the conversations were so adorable that it might just reaffirm your faith in humanity.

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On Wednesday the social media giant Twitter, launched “Twitter Alerts”. When news breaks about a safety concern or a weather related emergency, a Twitter Alert will pop up in your feed from the appropriate organization handling the information during the emergency.

The Twitter Alerts program is available to any organization that will be providing the critical information to the public; these organizations can be local, national or international. Currently, Twitter has more than 100 government agencies that are enrolled in this program. If you believe your agency should be enrolled in the program, fill out their enrollment form.

Believe it or not, Twitter has already proven to come in handy during times of disaster. FEMA used Twitter as a way to communicate critical information for those in the path of Hurricane Sandy. And the Boston Police Department used Twitter to correct any misinformation that the media report and also used it to keep the people of Boston up-to-date during the citywide manhunt for the bombers.

For most people, checking their social media sites first thing in the morning is almost as important as that first cup of coffee. Be sure to check out the list of organizations already signed up for Twitter Alerts and follow those that are close to you so you can always be in the know.
Current list of Twitter Alerts users

Information from Twitter Blog