I've been told by people close to the company that it was in the $50-100 million range. Given how aggressive the Backtype guys are, this doesn't shock me at all.
Interesting. Will we see a number if it was $50-100M in stock/cash - at what point do companies need to file with the SEC (or does Twitter not need to file since its still private?) I'm assuming it was at least partially stock, as Backtype investor Paige Craig's tweet suggests (http://twitter.com/#!/paigecraig/status/88304617397563392).
It would be very hard to believe that there was much cash in the deal. The Wall Street Journal is reporting twitter is raising another round that will value them at $7 Billion (see http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230480310457642... ) If you value twitter stock at $7B then perhaps they received $50M in stock,
$100 mil split three ways is quite a prize.