Social media company Twitter Inc. begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday. The offering could raise more than $2 billion (U.S.) for the seven-year old San Francisco-based firm.Twitter Inc. will begin life Thursday as a publicly traded company amidst a stock market buzz not seen since Facebook’s disastrous IPO.

The social media network co-founded by Jack Dorsey, a former punk rocker turned computer programmer, is scheduled to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange. On Wednesday night the company set a price of $26 (U.S.) for its initial public offering of stock.

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北京时间11月7日早间消息，Twitter已将IPO（首次公开招股）发行价定为26美元，高于之前的价格区间。按26美元的发行价计算，Twitter的上市融资规模将达到18.2亿美元，高于最初提交招股书时的14亿至17亿美元。Twitter最初拟定的发行价为17至20美元，随后上调至23至25美元。

据美国财经资讯网站Venturebeat 估算，按26美元的发行价计算，Twitter估值将达141亿美元。相比之下，美国职业社交网站LinkedIn的市值为260亿美元，而Facebook的市值高达1200亿美元。

按26美元的发行价计算，Twitter联合创始人埃文·威廉姆斯的身价将达到20亿美元，而另一位联合创始人杰克·多西的身价接近10亿美元。