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Engage! Captain Picard helps Twitter get started on the stock exchange

Make it so! Captain Jean-Luc Picard, I mean Patrick Stewart, and other Twitter users were on board to help ring the bell for Twitter's initial public offering. Twitter is to start trading at $26 per share.

Quartz's John McDuling snapped a good picture -- and posted it on Twitter:

Andrea Peterson
Andrea Peterson covers technology policy for The Washington Post, with an emphasis on cybersecurity, consumer privacy, transparency, surveillance and open government. She also delves into the societal impacts of technology access and how innovation is intertwined with cultural development.

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