Twitter confirms purported Bloomberg story is false

(Reuters) - A report claiming that Twitter Inc received an offer to be acquired for $31 billion, attributed to Bloomberg LP, is fake, Twitter and a spokesman for the news and financial data provider said on Tuesday.

Twitter shares jumped on the report, which was distributed on the Internet and closely resembled Bloomberg's news website. Its origins could not be immediately established.

The report appeared on a site called bloomberg.market, rather than bloomberg.com. Twitter did not immediately offer additional comment.

Twitter's stock was up 3.9 percent at $37.16 in early afternoon trading. Earlier, it rose as high as $38.82 in above average volume.

A Bloomberg spokesman declined to comment on the source of the fake Web page.

(Reporting by Yasmeen Abutaleb in San Francisco; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)

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