TwitPic Rejected a $10 Million Buyout Offer
Posted By Tehseen Baweja On January 15, 2010 @ 2:59 am In Social Media | 3 Comments
With Twitter experiencing tremendous growth, a lot of Twitter apps have also taken off. We recently heard about OneForty raising $1.9 Million for its Twitter app store and now there is talk of TwitPic being valued at more than $10 Million.
TwitPic [1] is the most popular photo sharing site for Twitter with 6.5 million registered users and thousands of photos uploaded everyday. A recent interview with Noah Everett [2], the founder of TwitPic, reveals that TwitPic rejected a buyout offer of more than $10 Million last year. This interview with Mixergy [3] further reveals that TwitPic makes around $1.5 Million every year out of which 70% is net profit.
It is a remarkable achievement for a service that was started by Noah single-handedly without any outside funding. Even now, the TwitPic team only consists of 4 people including Noah’s parents. Here is the complete interview.
If you want to know more about TwitPic, check out our previous posts here [4] and here [5].
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[1] TwitPic: http://twitpic.com/
[2] Noah Everett: http://twitter.com/NoahEverett
[3] This interview with Mixergy: http://mixergy.com/twitpic-noah-everett/
[4] here: http://techie-buzz.com/image-tools/import-migrate-twitpic-images-to-flickr.html
[5] here: http://feeds.techie-buzz.com/~r/techiebuzz/~3/L0GZ3JIk9z8/access-banned-twitpic-from-china.html
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