benedict evans, partner at andreessen harvests, you will stay with us., thank you for bringing us that study and for joining us. up next, the twitter's stock price seems to be at the mercy of sales speculation with big swings in both directions this week. we will focus on that next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: we are watching -- twitter is taking hits today. shares are down more than 6% at the end of thursday's trade. the stock has been volatile in recent weeks. we see a jump of over 5%. every time there is a whisper of a sale. why has it not happened yet? ben evans is still with me. interviewed a member of the board last week and he says they need to consider the right options and that in that that statement -- that statement has been analyzed. do you see twitter getting bought in its near future? it is not like it is an obvious thing that someone else would say. like microsoft buying link to injured on the other hand, it is a company that has always struggled to turn the latent the light of the product into a world company. the levels of indirection wi