The other day Twitter joined the ranks of companies that have gone before it in the tech sector and went public.

Yes, the company that introduced the world to #hashtags and retweeting has gone mainstream with an initial public offering (IPO) on the stock market.

Through the years tech companies have entered the stock market with a bang with some weathering the storm and becoming actual players in the market and others faltering and falling by the wayside.

It is of course too early to tell which one of those categories will best describe Twitter when all is said and done but history has definitely not always been kind to internet based companies.

With social media rather young in the grand scheme of things it is hard to put a price on how much owning a piece of the next great thing.

For every tech sector home run like Amazon and PayPal there are the forgotten fads such as MySpace and pets.com.

But while the world waits to see what fate ultimately befalls Twitter investors scooped up all of the shares that they could and the founders of Twitter became billionaires on paper overnight based on the value of their stock.

This of course is not too shabby for a company that has never turned a profit and sees the world in 140 character installments.

A few months back we here at Triple B joined the world of Twitter (@TripleBBrand) because a) we often find ourselves talking in 140 character sentences during the day and we wanted to share them and b) #everyoneelsewasdoingit.

During our time on Twitter we have followed a few news sources and learned a few things but for the most part Twitter has not really grabbed and held our attention the way we thought it would. #muchtodoaboutnothing.

The world of Twitter has also brought the need for rampant in game updates by journalists. While this is meant to tease their stories I would much rather wait for a fully formed story than to be bombarded by in game updates such as “Sources tell us @Ferguson just ate a burger on the sideline, says he is ready to reenter game #Spartanfansrejoice.”

So the news of Twitter going public has us wondering if that means that Twitter will suddenly change in some way to make it more exciting or offer new features to rock our 140 character worlds.

Ironically, I can be far more verbose in the world of SMS messaging on my phone with 160 characters to play with in my messages as opposed to the 140 Twitter allows. #Twittergotschooledbyalexandergrahambell

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