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"  As Tony Montana once said: &amp;quot;In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power.&amp;quot; And while Twitter hasn&amp;#039;t exactly cashed in yet, the company did just produce a valuation somewhere in the neighborhood of $8 to $10 billion by harnessing the power of communication, 140-character wit, and Justin Bieber. After all, a tweet is one of the most ephemeral things in this world. The collective spirit of these communications extends from your brother noting the birth of his new child (hopefully after actually telling people), to the overturning of governments, to Kim Kardashian channeling Robert Blake (&amp;quot;OMG Prince just pulled me up on stage!!! I&amp;#039;m shaking!!!!&amp;quot;). A Tweet is both fleeting and priceless, a moment of joy or pain. It might just be the simplest way to experience the entire spectrum of human intellect and emotion. It might also be the dumbest, but we digress. Point is, everyone can get in on the Twitter. (Sorry, Egypt.) And certain tweets matter more than others. Which isn&amp;#039;t to say Twitter&amp;#039;s value can be wholly and fairly quantified by Shaq imagining Kobe asking him how his ass tastes. But we came up with a simple formula to determine how Conan O&amp;#039;Brien&amp;#039;s Tweets stack up against those of, say, Al Gore. Or how you compare to Lady Gaga. It&amp;#039;s not as simple as who&amp;#039;s got the most &amp;quot;followers&amp;quot; though. Our equation, to determine what shall henceforth be known as the My Twitter IPO (#MyTwitterIPO) number, works like so: \u2022 We took Twitter&amp;#039;s $10B valuation and divided it by Twitter&amp;#039;s 195 million users = $51.28 \u2022 Take anyone&amp;#039;s follower count, divide it by 27 (2010&amp;#039;s average follower count) = Tweet Cachet Index (TCI) \u2022 Take the TCI, multiply it by $51.28 = Tweet Cachet Index Value (TCIV)  \u2022 TCIV divided by user&amp;#039;s number of tweets = #MyTwitterIPO To review, that&amp;#039;s:  Using that formula \u2014 which attempts to account for the cachet or influence carried by each tweet, according to basic laws of supply (your tweets) and demand (your followers) \u2014 each of CoCo&amp;#039;s ramblings is worth about $109, whereas one of our former VP&amp;#039;s is $14,116. That&amp;#039;s what you get when you invented the Internet. So: How&amp;#039;d you do? RT your value with #MyTwitterIPO to @Esquiremag now &amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;gt; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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