It is very curious that Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has made an investment worth $300 million in Twitter. It has no apparent connection whatsoever with the recent activists using Twitter as a medium to express their opinions and bring together the masses in this year's Arab uprisings. But Chief Executive Dick Costolo has very often said that Twitter is "the free speech wing of the free speech party." We completely believe that and whatever else is said in justification. According to analysts in October of this year Twitter was valued at about $8.4 billion, which means
Prince Alwaleed's stake should be about 3.6% of the company. That speaks for itself.
