Twitter's austere approach to its initial public offering was not enough to placate San Francisco's have-nots. A coalition of tenant advocates, seniors, workers, and students gathered outside the company's Mid-Market headquarters today, in the middle of Twitter's stock market debut, to draw attention to corporate tax breaks and what the group claims is Twitter's role is "displacing thousands of families, seniors, and working people in San Francisco," according to a press release.

When the inevitable Twitter movie inevitably beams into theaters, no one will play Dom Sagolla. It's not because he doesn't want to be part of the story: for the past several years, he's toured the world as a self-proclaimed inventor of Twitter. He's not. So why hasn't anyone ever called him out?

Twitter didn't make a bunch of dudes "paper" billionaires today without a helping hand from the government. But Senators John McCain and Carl Levin decided this is the week to burst their IPO bubble. The stock option tax loophole that let Twitter take an estimated $154 million tax deduction, they declare, "ought to be closed."

Twitter's IPO motto may be "less Facebook, more LinkedIn." But it's repeating a crucial mistake that, in Facebook's case, led to class action lawsuits for selective disclosure. Only this time, it's Goldman Sachs instead of Morgan Stanley.

It's Facebook Twitter IPO day! After months of SEC reviews and roadshows and profiteering, FB TWTR will finally take its place in the Nasdaq NYSE menagerie. Time to start digging up your backyard bullion stash, right? Wrong. For the average guy the Facebook IPO is strictly Like Fave, don't touch.

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo used to do improv at Second City and likes to say stand-up comedy taught him everything he knows about business, but his joke reflex fell painfully flat yesterday. (The full NSFW Storify is below.)

Two financial firms filed a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court today alleging that Twitter had them organize a private sale of its shares and then cancelled the sale—all for the purpose of ratcheting up investor interest prior to its IPO. The complaint accuses Twitter of "using the aborted sale as a way to give the money-losing company a $10 billion market valuation and higher IPO price," says Reuters.

In 2011, San Francisco agreed to exempt Twitter from the city's payroll taxes on new hires in exchange for charitable contributions like, say, philanthropic retweets. The value of the tax break was estimated to be worth $22 million over six years. But according to the San Francisco Chronicle, the tax break could be worth more than $55 million after the company's IPO.

The all-male directorship at Twitter is rewarding itself handsomely for running a business that makes no money, Footnoted reports. The salary for attending board meetings, while your company bleeds money? Now up to $16 million per year.

"This will not be like Facebook. This will not be like Facebook. I'll come in on Saturday if I have to, but dear god we can never repeat the chaos of Facebook."-everyone at the New York Stock Exchange in charge of Twitter's IPO.

Your standard variety gentrification is trifling compared to what the Twitter IPO is about to do to San Francisco. The situation is so untenable that urban policy experts have started using a new term to describe it: hyper gentrification.

Yesterday's amended IPO documents brought more news than continued unprofitablility: Ev Williams isn't going to be Twitter's biggest billion dollar success story anymore. That honor now belongs to Suhail Rizvi, a reclusive Hollywood insider and Wall Street financier who deletes his existence from the internet.

The next stock market hysteria is here: Twitter's S-1 filing with the SEC, detailing brand new information about the hot ticket company, is now public. It's a money-loser, but will be the biggest financial craze since Facebook—let's dig in.