Twitter reported a nearly doubling of its fourth quarterly revenue to $479 million, beating Wall Street expectations. The online bulletin board now has 288 million monthly active users, a 20% jump year-over-year. At the same time, it lost nearly $125 million. But investors liked what they heard, sending Twitter’s shares (TWTR) rising 12% in after-hours trading.
Below are some collected posts on social media about Twitter’s results.
From our very own Erin Griffith:
twitter earnings twitter is the most active time on earnings twitter
— erin griffith (@eringriffith) February 5, 2015
On Twitter and Medium:
.@Backchnnl The cross-ownership between @Twitter & @Medium makes warm fuzzy stories coming out around $TWTR earnings day feel orchestrated.
— David Hobby 📷 (@strobist) February 5, 2015
On Twitter versus Facebook:
From $TWTR earnings report, easy to see that @twitter has a business & it will become a good business, but it won't be a ginormous like $FB.
— OM (@om) February 5, 2015
On Twitter’s seach partnership with Google:
https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/563464168716525570
New Twitter-Google deal all about driving people to newly planned curated views on “experiences, topics and events” @dickc says $TWTR
— Aaron Pressman (@ampressman) February 5, 2015
Good news from Twitter about advertising:
Perhaps this is the stat driving Twitter's stock up: "Advertising revenue totaled $432 million, an increase of 97% year-over-year" #earnings
— Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) February 5, 2015
https://twitter.com/ReformedBroker/status/563447782032564224
On Twitter’s rise in share price Thursday:
https://twitter.com/WillOremus/status/563449754722791425
On growth (and criticism that it’s not fast enough):
Twitter's job, yet again, for upcoming conference call: Convince Wall Street they don't have a growth problem, even though #s say otherwise.
— Peter Kafka (@pkafka) February 5, 2015
Twitter stock now rising! Time to change the logo pic.twitter.com/gxhDQ8Fsem
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) February 5, 2015
Storyful contributed to this report.