Deal, although I'm not sure that's a good criteria. Obviously Twitter is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If AOL had 100Bn in the bank, maybe they'

Deal, although I'm not sure that's a good criteria. Obviously Twitter is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If AOL had 100Bn in the bank, maybe they'd buy twitter for 10Bn. But to me, that wouldn't prove Twitter is worth 10bn on an open market, it just validates that AOL is absolutely batshit crazy and likes losing money. Maybe it's just me... Everyone in my extended family uses email regularly. Most use facebook weekly or daily. Twitter rarely comes up at all.