Om Malik says that Twitter has finalized its C round, raising $15 million at an $80 million pre-money valuation. We're told that's not the case, but think that may be a matter of semantics -- it's certainly in the range we had reported last month, when we were told a deal would get done in the near future. TechCrunch guesses that Spark Capital has come aboard, which also jibes with what we had heard at the time.
Update: Not a done deal yet, we've confirmed. But it's in the late stages.
See Also: Twitter Raising Money: How Much Is It Worth?
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Om Malik says that Twitter has finalized its C round, raising $15 million at an $80 million pre-money valuation. We're told that's not the case, but think that may be a matter of semantics -- it's certainly in the range we had reported last month, when we were told a deal would get done in the near future. TechCrunch guesses that Spark Capital has come aboard, which also jibes with what we had heard at the time.
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Call it a modern anomaly, herd mentality or whatever else you want but Twitter seems to continue to grow in popularity as its downtime issues get more pronounced. Amidst recent news of a successful funding round, Twitter’s problems keep getting worse as buzz throughout the blogosphere questions Twitter’s staying power. Is it really that hard [...] [..] 
Twitter has acquired Twitter search engine Summize -- or has it?
The deal was first reported by English blogger Josh Chandler; Path 101 founder Charlie O'Donnell confirms th [..] 
Kudos to the folks at Twitter, who seem to have gotten their biggest weakness -- reliability problems -- mostly sorted out this summer.
In Twitter's monthly email update, cofounder Biz Stone notes that [..] 
Twitter users, and Twitter critics, can't be shocked to have seen this at 2:43 pm est:
The caveat: Just about everyone in techland seems to have struggled with WWDC/iPhone traffic. ( [..] 
We're still trying to figure out why we, and many people we know, became much more popular on Twitter in the last few days. Via e-mail, Twitter co-founder Biz Stone offers four possible answer [..] 
Last week in my 5 Tips to Grow Your Twitter Presence post John suggested that an additional strategy to grow your follower numbers in Twitter is to target bigger Twitter users for conversation.
The logic behind this is that if you can get them to reply to you and even have a multiple part conversation with [...] [..] 
