Twitter for the first time in 12 years, received a quarterly profit
AT Twitter summed up the results of the 4th quarter (October - December) and 2017 in whole. It turned out as in template: good news and bad. FROM Which one to start with?
First profit
AT the fourth quarter of the microblogging network earned $ 735 million and for the first time (for 12 years of existence!) Received a net profit - $ 91 million. The last quarter ended with $ 21.1 million losses, and the same period of 2016 - with $ 167.1 million "minus".
But it's just a spoonful of honey in barrel with tar, because in the whole year was still unprofitable - on $ 108 million. Although this is 4 times less than 2016 year. Annual revenue was $ 2.4 billion, having decreased by 3%.
How many users
The number of active users (who do not enter less often than month) is now 330 million people. It's on 4% more than in 2016, but less predictions of experts who were expecting 332 million.
TO word, after Twitter published these figures, the stock price began to increase by pre-auction in New York . Only for The last year of Twitter increased almost 50%.
Moreover, y Facebook net profit of 2017 increased in 1.6 times by compared to previous year - up to $ 15,934 billion
Source: Twitter