Will Twitter Be the Last Big Social Media IPO?

Twitter won't be the first big social media company to go public, but it may well be the last — at least for a while

After back-to-back years of blockbuster IPOs from Facebook and LinkedIn — not to mention recent IPOs from Internet companies with a social bent like Yelp, Zynga and Groupon — the well of potential headline-grabbing social media IPOs suddenly seems to have dried up.

"This is the last of the big four," Charlene Li, founder of the Altimeter Group, told Mashable in an interview. LinkedIn went public in 2011, Facebook went public in 2012, Google — which owns Google+ and YouTube — went public in 2004 and Twitter is expected to go public by the end of this year or early next. "We are not going to see one like this again." Read more...