Twitter Gets Major Funding, Adds New Data Center 125
1sockchuck writes "Twitter has announced new funding led by Kleiner Perkins, with reports placing the new round at $200 million for a valuation of $3.7 billion. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo said the microblogging service added more than 100 million new accounts in the past 12 months. That kind of growth requires a lot of servers, so Twitter will open a new data center in Sacramento as it begins to operate its own facilities, following a path forged by Google and Facebook."
One question that we all want to know (Score:5, Funny)
The funding was delivered in the form... (Score:3, Funny)
... of 1,428,571 $1.40 checks, so it'll take a while before they can actually use it...
Says something about the state of things (Score:4, Funny)
Consecutive articles on /. $30M for biofuel research, $200M for twitter. We're fucked, but at least we can tweet about it.
Re:Yay... (Score:5, Funny)
There must be like a million better uses for it
coke and hookers?