A Triple Shot of Optimism for the Twitter IPO, Brought to You by Starbucks

By Tim Beyers – Oct 31, 2013 at 8:00PM

NYSE: TWTR

Twitter

The two team up to allow users to “tweet’ the gift of coffee.

Twitter's (TWTR) IPO opportunity just keeps getting bigger, Fool contributor Tim Beyers says in the following video.

This time, it's a deal with Starbucks (SBUX 0.23%) that's cause for optimism. The coffee king has teamed with the microblogger to create a gifting service called Tweet-a-Coffee, whereby users can gift anyone on Twitter who has a Starbucks account, $5 in coffee credit.

Talk about interesting timing. Earlier this month, Twitter struck a deal with Comcast to turn the service into an ad-hoc remote, whereby clicking on a related tweet could take you to live TV. Each succeeding deal increases the odds of Twitter becoming the leading social platform for mobile commerce, Tim argues.

Do you agree? Are you planning to participate in the Twitter IPO? Please watch the video to get Tim's full take, and then leave a comment to let us know what you think.

Fool contributor Tim Beyers is a member of the Motley Fool Rule Breakers stock-picking team and the Motley Fool Supernova Odyssey I mission. He didn't own shares in any of the companies mentioned in this article at the time of publication. Check out Tim's web home and portfolio holdings or connect with him on Google+, Tumblr, or Twitter, where he goes by @milehighfool. You can also get his insights delivered directly to your RSS reader.

The Motley Fool recommends Starbucks. The Motley Fool owns shares of Starbucks. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.