Believe it or not, "Twitter is underhyped," said Robert Scoble in Scobleizer's posterous. The micro-blogging site is winning the battle against Facebook and other competitors as businesses "drink the Twitter Kool-aid." With businesses all over the world deciding that Twitter is the way to bring customers in the door, the company must be worth $5 billion to $10 billion.
Twitter isn't worth anything close to that yet, said Alex Wilhelm in TechGeist. Twitter's current revenue is zero, and it will have to get tens of thousands of those businesses to fork over, say, $125 a month to justify anything close to such a crazy valuation. Scoble, a "great technologist," is right—Twitter eventually will find a way to monetize its skyrocketing traffic—but for now valuing the company at $2 billion is generous.
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