The company has made public its papers for an S-1 Initial Public Offering. But why now in the middle of a government shutdown?

Twitter plans to go public and trade shares under the ticket symbol "TWTR". More details about the company emerge as it has made public its papers for an S-1 Initial Public Offering.

How will Twitter monetize its user base?

Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba is reportedly pulling out of a Hong Kong initial public offering, and plans to go public in the U.S. instead.

You haven't been able to buy Chrysler stock since the 2009 bankruptcy. That could change.

Twitter's going public! But no-one quite knows how the company expects to generate revenue. And for now, Twitter's not telling.

For Twitter, patience was probably a virtue.

The company won't have to reveal company information publicly for quite some time.

The social media company publicly filed its IPO documents today, hoping to raise $1 billion in the largest Silicon Valley IPO since Facebook in 2012.