{"id":443514,"date":"2018-06-09T13:34:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-09T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=443514"},"modified":"2018-06-09T13:34:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-09T17:34:00","slug":"defying-skeptics-twitter-stock-surges-60-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=443514","title":{"rendered":"Defying Skeptics, Twitter Stock Surges 60% in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous reader quotes CNN:<br \/>\nTwitter is one of the hottest stocks on Wall Street this year &#8212; and now the company is hoping to cash in by selling $1 billion of bonds that can eventually convert into Twitter stock&#8230; Twitter&#8217;s stock is up more than 60% this year, and prior to Thursday&#8217;s drop, Twitter shares had been on a 10-day winning streak. Why are investors flocking to Twitter? It looks like Twitter&#8217;s strategy to embrace live video is a hit with users and advertisers. Twitter reported an actual profit for the past two quarters and user growth has accelerated.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s why Twitter&#8217;s stock has easily outperformed top rival Facebook, which is up 6% in 2018, and it&#8217;s trouncing struggling Snap Inc. The parent company of Snapchat is still down 15% this year, despite a 10% surge in the past week. Twitter was also just added to the S&amp;P 500, which proves that the little blue bird is now a blue chip American firm that is finally starting to grow up.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<div class=\"share_submission\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Defying+Skeptics%2C+Twitter+Stock+Surges+60%25+in+2018%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F2HB3djc\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/twitter_icon_large-340.png\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftech.slashdot.org%2Fstory%2F18%2F06%2F09%2F013246%2Fdefying-skeptics-twitter-stock-surges-60-in-2018%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/facebook_icon_large-170.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"nobg\" href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/18\/06\/09\/013246\/defying-skeptics-twitter-stock-surges-60-in-2018?utm_source=slashdot&amp;utm_medium=googleplus\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/gplus-16-170.png\" alt=\"Share on Google+\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/18\/06\/09\/013246\/defying-skeptics-twitter-stock-surges-60-in-2018?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Slashdot &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Slashdot\/~3\/b1GKhJkLy-E\/defying-skeptics-twitter-stock-surges-60-in-2018\" target=\"_blank\">Defying Skeptics, Twitter Stock Surges 60% in 2018<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An anonymous reader quotes CNN: Twitter is one of the hottest stocks on Wall Street this year &#8212; and now the company is hoping to cash in by selling $1 billion of bonds that can eventually convert into Twitter stock&#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=443514\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":443515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,110],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-443514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slashdot","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-slashdot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/443515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}