Twitter shares leap 73 per cent at stock market debut

Charlee Gothard
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Twitter now valued at £19bn after just one day's trading on the New York Stock Exchange

Twitter's first day of trading as a public company ended successfully, as the micro-blogging social networking site saw its share value rise by 73 per cent, reaching an overall company value of $31...

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