Twitter Rejected $500 Million Facebook Buyout, Says Founder

Twitter turned down a $500 million buyout offer from Facebook several years ago, co-founder Biz Stone has revealed to Sky News.

Stone, who is in the United Kingdom promoting his new book, Things A Little Bird Told Me, says that he and fellow founder Evan Williams had a meeting with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg where the latter expressed an interest in buying Twitter.

However, neither Stone nor Williams wanted to sell, so together they came up with a number “so big… no-one would ever say yes to it.”

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