If someone tweets in the desert, does anyone read it? They do if the Twitter account belongs to billionaire Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, 57, who recently announced that his Kingdom Holding Co. had invested $300 million in the social networking giant. Al-Waleed's Twitter investment is secondary in nature, mean ing that his holding company bought shares from existing stakeholders in the privately held Twitter. The prince's penchant for an Internet-based company is notable given that he has preferred to invest mainly in the financial and hospitality sectors. His investment came on the heels of Twitter's announcement that it would begin offering an Arabic-based feed (which reads from right to left) in an effort to attract users from the Middle East-North Africa region.
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机译：如果有人在沙漠中鸣叫，有人读过吗？如果推特账户属于亿万富翁，57岁的沙特王子阿尔·瓦莱德·本·塔拉勒（Al-Waleed bin Talal），他们会这样做，他最近宣布他的Kingdom Holding Co.已向这家社交网络巨头投资3亿美元。 Al-Waleed对Twitter的投资本质上是次要的，这意味着他的控股公司从私有Twitter中的现有利益相关者那里购买了股票。王子对基于Internet的公司很感兴趣，因为他倾向于主要投资于金融和酒店业。他的投资是在Twitter宣布其将开始提供基于阿拉伯语的提要（从右到左阅读）后宣布的，目的是吸引中东和北非地区的用户。
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