Andrey Ternovskiy, the maker of Chatroulette, is at the centre of a bidding war. The 17-year-old Russian is residing on one of the internet’s hot properties after Facebook and affluent investors are offering big amounts to purchase the concept. But it seems that the teenager is not in the mood of selling, not yet, anyway.

Chatroulette, the video chat site, permits users to create random connections with strangers, to see and to talk to them, anywhere in the world. When people go on the site, their webcam is automatically switched on and they are connected to another user.

Since its commencement last November with 500 users, Chatroulette has developed at a swift speed and now boasts of ten million visitors a month. The expansion has attracted the investors who want to purchase into the web’s next big thing.

This has led to a scuffle between Russian and American suitors to buy Mr. Ternovskiy’s talents. But Mr. Ternovskiy is holding up. Google, Skype and Yandex, Google’s main competitor in Russia, are also supposed to have exchanged words in recent weeks.

Recently Mr. Ternovskiy, said, “I get calls all the time where people say they want to buy my site, but I think that some of them are not serious: they are only offering me $1 million”.

At present, he says that he does not want to sell the idea. In fact, he is searching for new concepts, specialization and investment to expand the business. Recently, he was in the United States, where it was believed that he has been speaking to prospective investors in New York and San Francisco.