within minutes of our visit to moten's yogurt shop, he'd put us on instagram and facebook. "it's great it promotes their biz and leads me to purchasing." but measuring just how much business online activity attracts has been, for the most part, anecdotal. but few deny that it can't hurt. "as a small business grows, they need to get in front of large numbers of people they need to attract." so as twitter prepares for it's i-p-o roadshow beginning october 28th and for trading on the new york stock exchange to begin november 15th, a big question remains--how much of it's "access to eyeballs" will translate directly into sales for advertisers. twitter's user growth has slowed and is coming mostly from countries overseas not considered big markets for advertisers. but the lure of having access to twitter's 232-million users is a powerful magnet. it may help potential investors to overlook twitter's third quarter loss of 65-million dollars-- three times what it lost a year ago. it also added 300-employees during that time but the losses are draining twitter's bank account. it hop

wind gusts moten shally to 85 miles an hour. >>> a 7.1 magnitude earthquake hit japan several hours agoappened under the ocean off of the main island, a small tsunami followed. there have been no reports of injury or damage. as a precaution officials did evacuate in several areas including the fukushima nuclear plant. >>> president obama touched down in new york to speak to students at a local high school, but the president's message was also meant for congress. >> reporter: president obama spoke at the high school behind me calling for an increase in government spending on education. his comments come as congressional leaders prepare to begin budget negotiations next week. he has proposed $300 million in his budget this year to better prepare high school students for college. >> some of these ideas i have laid out before, some of them i'm doing on my own, some of them require congress to do something. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> and one way we can start is by congress passing a budget that reflects our need to invest in our young people. [ applause ] >> obama praised the p-tech where