Twitter financing business to 3.7 billion (Reuters) (Yahoo!) values

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter raised $ 200 million in funding in a deal that values society microblogging to 3.7 billion, less than a year after that he began his first serious efforts to make money.

Investment from the Silicon Valley Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers venture capital firm and current investors, Twitter said.

The money will be used to Twitter grow the company, said in a post on his blog corporate Wednesday Twitter. Blog blog not specified and a spokesman declined to offer details.

Twitter, which was September, 175 million users is networking among new fast growing harvest Internet social services. Include Facebook and Zynga.

The company has added two new members of the Council - FlipBoard Director General Mike McCue and DoubleClick CEO David Rosenblatt.

Shifts are two months after the company four years provided the position of Chief Executive Dick Costolo, the architect of its advertising efforts, a sign that the money is a priority for the service.

Costolo told Reuters in May that Twitter provided to hundreds of advertisers for its system of advertising at the end of the year. He said previous assessment that $ 1 billion business meant that onus on Twitter to grow a business that can generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.

Twitter had raised $ 160 million in four rounds of funding earlier.

AllThingsDigital first tours $ 200 million financing technology blog. Told that Kleiner Perkins fight global DST Russian investment firm. Twitter spokesman confirmed that the figures are accurate.

Twitter, which allows users to send messages text of 140 characters or Tweets disciples, is one of the most popular social networking Web and it is difficult for the Web services such as Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. established.

Investors watch service closely, hoping one day public shares of the company.

(Reported by Alexei Oreskovic.) Additional reporting by Jim Finkle. (Editing by Robert MacMillan)

Twitter by 8% of internauts American (New York Times)

Despite its rapid growth and media, Twitter remains a niche service United States used by only 8% of American Internet users according to a new survey of Internet & American Life Project of Pew Research Center. The figures to paint a picture of a dynamic communication platform is still a ways off the coast of a common tool for most users.

When factoring that 74% of Americans currently use the Internet, said Pew Twitter is actually used by 6 per cent of all Americans and more popular among urban Hispanic, black and younger users. Among 18-29 years, 14 percent use Twitter, compared to 7% of 30-49-year-olds, the second group. Eighteen percent of Hispanic respondents and 13% of African-Americans reported use of Twitter, compared to 5% of white users. Eleven per cent urban respondents and 8% of participants in suburban said they used Twitter whereas 5% of the rural users said they did.

Twitter, the company of San Francisco for four years, recently declared that he 175 million users, with 370 000 new users sign every day and 65 percent of users living outside the United States. According to Pew, first effort of the Centre de recherche examine Twitter exclusively, 36% of Twitter users for new posts daily while 41% say based audit survey that they verify site less than every few weeks or never at all to do.

Those who update on Twitter, 72% said that their positions are on their personal life, activities with one person in five display on a daily basis. Sharing of life at work (62%), news (55%), humorous or philosophical observations on life (54%) and material retweeting others (53%) are the most popular uses of Twitter.

As we mentioned before, Twitter is a new platform and a budding business media. It is not the scope of a Facebook because they serve for purposes different, with Twitter more than a one-to-many, asymmetrical service. Latest numbers can underline the fact that Twitter has much more to do. But it also shows that in the hands of its users, it is a powerful communications tool that serves both as a personal platform for sharing and a way to quickly deliver the news.

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