by: Journalism.org | Pew Research Center
Facebook’s May 18 IPO—which set the market value of the
social-networking giant at $105 billion—sparked significant discussion
on Twitter, blogs and Facebook itself, with more expressions of
skepticism than confidence about the stock's value, according to a
report by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in
Journalism.
Users of Twitter were the most doubtful, as almost four times as much of
the overall conversation from May 14-20 (22%) consisted of claims that
Facebook stock was over hyped than it was worth buying (6%).