Twitter Gets Their Venture Round

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Thursday, July 26th, 2007

twitter.pngTwitter has raised a round of financing, led by Union Square Ventures. The size of the round has not been disclosed (yet), but additional investors include Charles River Ventures, Marc Andreessen, Dick Costolo, Ron Conway, and Naval Ravikant.

The service, which has around 300,000 users, has grown rapidly in recent months. Pownce, Kyte and others are competitors.

See Duncan Riley’s interview with founder Biz Stone here.

Update: It sounds like the company had a strong talk with investors about not disclosing the size of the round or any other particulars. No one’s talking, other than to narrow it down to betwen $1 – $5 million.

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