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FILE PHOTO: The Twitter logo is seen outside the company headquarters in San Francisco, California, U.S., January 11, 2021. REUTERS\/Stephen Lam\/File Photo <\/figcaption>

(Reuters) – Twitter Inc has thought about whether to hold bitcoin on its balance sheet, but has not made any changes yet, the social media platform\u2019s chief financial officer, Ned Segal, told CNBC on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

In an interview with CNBC, Segal said Twitter had considered how it might pay vendors or employees using bitcoin, should they ask to transact using the virtual currency.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe might consider whether we would be transferring dollars to bitcoin at the time of the transaction or if we wanted bitcoin on our balance sheet ready to complete that transaction,\u201d Segal said.<\/p>\n

Segal\u2019s comments come a couple of days after billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk\u2019s Tesla Inc revealed the automaker had bought $1.5 billion of the cryptocurrency and would soon accept it as a form of payment for cars, sending the cryptocurrency shooting higher.<\/p>\n

On General Motors Co\u2019s earnings call on Wednesday, Chief Executive Mary Barra, responding to a question about accepting bitcoin as payment for vehicles, said, \u201cThis is something we\u2019ll monitor and we\u2019ll evaluate. If there\u2019s strong customer demand for it in the future, there\u2019s nothing that precludes us from doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n

But unlike Musk, Barra said \u201cWe don\u2019t have any plans to invest in bitcoin. Full stop there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shares of Twitter were up 11% on Tuesday after the company beat Wall Street targets for quarterly sales and profit and followed its social media peers to forecast a strong start to 2021 as ad spending rebounds from rock bottom.<\/p>\n

Twitter top boss Jack Dorsey, who is also the chief executive of payments firm Square Inc, is a known bitcoin enthusiast and has said he believes the internet will have its own native currency.<\/p>\n

Square in October said it had purchased about 4,709 bitcoins at an aggregate purchase price of $50 million.<\/p>\n

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