. >> reporter: the company won't say how much it will make from the partnerships with espn, vicom and others but driving people to twitter is certainly valuable. >>> meanwhile, investors and twitter over the market in general which is very active in recent months. according to deal logic 123 companies have gone public so far this year, the highest number since 2007. here with his take on upcoming offerings and what investors should look for, francis president of and editor of ipo desktop.com. francis, let me start with twitter because there is so much talk about it. we don't know when it will go public. we don't have the numbers yet, although julia gave us an idea of what to expect in revenues and we don't know what the evaluation will be. is this the ipo investors should look into? >> it would come public at the 10 billion-dollar evaluation at ten times revenue, which is definitely smaller than some of these companies that have gone public. they have probably position in the market and it would be impossible to displace them, and i think what they've done is waited -- they are waitin