Soliciting Investors: One Thing Twitter Should Never Be Used For

Last Updated on March 25, 2026 by Ryan Roberts

I saw this TechCrunch article in my RSS reader and thought I would pass it on to you:

Social Median Disregards 60 Years of Securities Regulations With Sale of Stock on Twitter

I’m a new user of Twitter and I believe it can be used for a lot of things. Soliciting Investors? Not one of them.

When it comes to raising capital and soliciting investors, I think the best approach you can take is that you should assume you can’t do what you want to do.

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Ryan Roberts is a startup lawyer at Roberts Zimmerman PLLC with more than two decades of experience advising startups and venture capital investors. He is the author of “Acceleration” and StartupLawyer.com.

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