By Kevin McCauley
Twitter has received an $800M cash infusion from an investment group led by Russia's DST Global. The Mercury News calls the transaction the "largest capital investment in history."
Twitter released a statement from DST founder Yuri Milner in which he called the microblogging site "one of the few companies that has truly changed the world."
Milner added: "Twitter's astonishing growth is a testament to how important it is becoming to more people every day, and why we couldn't pass up the change to be a bigger part of its future."
The investment values Twitter, which has estimated annual revenues in the $200M range, at $8B.
DST invested $400M in Facebook two years ago.
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