With all that disrupting, Silicon Valley can get a little topsy-turvy sometimes. No revenue leads to higher value and, now, movie-based office themes are officially announced before the product that's supposed to be built there.

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.

Sony and "several other major Hollywood studios" are interested in turning Nick Bilton's book, Hatching Twitter, into a movie, TV series, or Netflix-style original, reports TechCrunch. Which method actor will have to get his nose pierced to play young Jack Dorsey?

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.

You'll have to ask Ben Grossman, Head of Global Operations for Twitter Media, to repeat this poignant remark about San Francisco's new transit strike—because he deleted it. But not before we saw it.

If Twitter's transformation from "that micro-blogging service" to publicly traded advertising titan works out, it's going to have a painful tax bill. But there's good news! Twitter is already pulling an Apple and setting itself up with Irish money loopholes.

"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.

Twitter tossed out a little update to its pre-IPO disclosures, and the soon-to-be-public company is still far, far away from profitable.

Soon, 36-year-old Jack Dorsey will be the chairman of a publicly traded Twitter, and worth hundreds of millions of dollars. A decade prior, before screwing his friends and changing the internet, he was JakDaemon: a moody young man in St. Louis, desperate to share his beauty with the world. Here's his archive.

Members of the Service Employees International Union gathered outside Twitter's Mid-Market headquarters yesterday, with one protestor carrying a sign that read "Don't Twit on Me."

Amid the self-aggrandizing and back-stabbery revealed in yesterday's Nick Bilton excerpt, one subtler piece of strange Twitter history: Al Gore wanted to buy it for the worst reason.

Or maybe it's meant to entice another board member? One with a dick.

Much like Facebook's origin story, Twitter's is fraught with backstabbing, ego, and cinematic headbutting. The first excerpt from New York Times reporter Nick Bilton's undressing of Twitter is here, and reveals a company that sort of hates itself—and the diabolical vanity of co-founder Jack Dorsey.

The best publicist in Silicon Valley has been quiet lately, and it's not because she's busy writing conflict disclosures. Rather, PandoDaily editor Sarah Lacy's taken time to come out on the wrong side of history and pen a self-described "rant" against "the mob" saying Twitter should have one single woman on its board.