Bye-bye, birdie!
Bob Greifeld’s Nasdaq OMX has lost the Twitter tweetstakes to its rival New York Stock Exchange Euronext.
San Francisco-based micro-blogging firm Twitter indicated in an amended regulatory filing that it will list its initial stock offering on the NYSE.
Twitter’s Nasdaq diss, which was widely expected, marks the most significant blow to the tech-laden Nasdaq’s business since Facebook’s botched stock IPO in May 2012.
It’s also a big blow for Greifeld, who flew to Twitter’s headquarters to personally pitch its executives on the virtues of a Nasdaq listing.
For the Big Board, the listing is, perhaps, its biggest win since tech giant Oracle, run by CEO Larry Ellison, gave Nasdaq the boot in favor NYSE in June.
“We are grateful for Twitter’s confidence in our platform and look forward to partnering with them,” a NYSE spokesman said.
Nasdaq officials always viewed winning the Twitter listing as an “uphill battle,” sources familiar with the situation have told The Post.
Twitter is likely to list its shares over the next several weeks. The tech company also revealed in its Tuesday filing that revenue more than doubled in the third quarter, to $168.6 million.