From Fail Whale To Uncaged Bird, Twitter's IPO Drumbeat Will Get Louder

Do you hear that faint drumbeat? In the background. Barely noticeable, amid the frenzy around Facebooks stock price resurgence, or the noise of your Twitter stream, there is a slow, steady drumbeat afoot looking out to 2014 and the public offering for the microblogging platform. In the rocky year since Facebooks much-discussed IPO, the rollercoaster of the stock price has highlighted both challenges and opportunities facing Twitter as it prepares itself for the next test. Perhaps from this post onward, prepare yourself to read a lot more posts leading up to this event, even more Twitter icons on television, even more Twitter handles in the mainstream media, a mainstream book on the formation and early days of Twitter by a New York Times writer, and a sharp hum of increasing chirping among the chattering classes all the way to the scrappiest of incubators. The drumbeat to Twitters IPO has begun.