Barron's Brendan Conway asks whether investors will avoid making the same mistakes they made with the Facebook IPO by "charging into" funds that own Twitter's pre-IPO shares.

Conway says the same funds that are benefitting from Twitter now are the same funds that benefitted from Facebook--until that train halted in 2012 when the IPO was botched.

Facebook took down GSV Capital's price from $18 to $10, and now it's up 13 percent the morning of September 13, after a 15 percent weighting in Twitter, Conway reports. Firsthand Capital Management's [profile] Firsthand Technology Value Fund reported a 10.4 percent Twitter weighting and is moving up by 6 percent, Conway writes.

Conway predicts that Global X Management [profile] Social Media Index ETF will be the first ETF to add Twitter.

The Wall Street Journal's Miriam Gottfried explains why she doesn't think that Twitter and Facebook are analogous.

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Edited by: Casey Quinlan


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