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Market Snapshot 📈
S&P 500 (Wednesday Close): 3,169.94 +24.62 (0.78%)
NASDAQ (Wednesday Close): 10,492.50 +148.61 (1.44%)
FTSE 100 (5 PM IST): 6122.65 -33.51(-0.54)
NIFTY 50 (Today's Close): 10,813.45 +107.70 (1.01%)
USDINR (5 PM IST): 74.98 (1 Year +9.27%)
Best Job Post in the World
What Happened: Twitter shares spiked on Wednesday after several reports emerged, stating the company is considering launching a subscription service. The micro-blogging tech giant posted a job listing for a ‘senior full-stack software engineer’ for a platform code-named Gryphon. The listing informed that the company is building a subscription platform, which can be used by other teams in the future.
The company labeled it as a ‘first for us!’. The listing further read, “Gryphon is a team of web engineers who are closely collaborating with the Payments team and the Twitter.com team. We are looking for a full-stack engineer to lead the Payment and Subscription client work, someone who values collaboration as much as we do and can act as a bridge for the engineering team. It’s a great opportunity for all teams involved!”
It is, however, unclear how the company plans to implement the service. Data licensing and ad sales are the critical pillars of Twitter's current revenue stream. A subscription service could offer some form of exclusive content for monthly fees.
The company has previously fondled with the idea of a paid service for power users. Twitter ran a survey a few years back to investigate whether the users would pay for breaking news alerts, info about followers’ tweet activities, and new data analytics.
Twitter, however, is yet to respond to the journalists’ queries regarding this news development. On the contrary, it removed the ‘working for potential subscription’ and ‘Gryphon team working on the feature’ parts from the job listing after the reports.
Market Reaction: Twitter shares rallied almost 11% intraday to close at +7.34% at $35.41.
Twitter Snapshot
TWTR $35.41 +2.42 (+7.34%)
Analyst Ratings (42 Analysts) BUY 20% HOLD 71% SELL 10%
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