SAN FRANCISCO (AFX ) – Twitter & lt; TWTR.NAS & gt; lost active users in the past quarter. Thus, the growth problems of the short message service have reached a peak. Founder and chief Jack Dorsey assured at the same time at the end of the quarter, the situation had improved.
The short message service reported fourth quarter 305 million active users, if one deducts the subscribers of the SMS service. This was a decrease of two million within three months. Analysts, however, had expected an increase of two million. Along with the SMS service stagnated number of users with 320 million, while was expected in the stock market to increase to 323 million. Dorsey argued actually had one to include more users over 500 million, to see the tweets could get without being logged into Twitter.
The once rapid growth of user numbers at Twitter had slowed dramatically last year and all attempts to bring it back on track so far been unsuccessful. The brakes also future business, because on advertising as Company Twitter is paid Twitter messages.
In the last quarter there was a loss of 90.2 million after a loss of 125.3 million one year previously. Throughout the year, Twitter again lost more than half a billion dollars. Sales for the quarter grew by 48 percent to 710 million dollars as Twitter after US market close announced on Wednesday.
At constant number of users is expected to mean that either Twitter increasingly displays advertisements. The number of active advertisers has grown in the last quarter by 90 percent to 130,000, it said. For the current quarter Twitter hired a sales 595-610 million in prospect. On the stock market approximately EUR 627 million had been expected.
The already beleaguered shares lost in after hours trading initially more than 13 percent. Later, however, the decline leveled off to less than one percent.
Dorsey announced that the operation of Twitter should be changed. Among other changes to the structure of answers had planned to tweets that was currently “confusing” and brake growth. Twitter will provide an opportunity for users already to make weight the messages from software. With the option, the tweets are no longer as usual displayed in chronological order, but according to an algorithm which sorted the relevant to a user messages later. Dorsey already introduced the common from the outset limited to 140 characters per Tweet in question.
In addition, he wanted to expand the management team, Dorsey said. In January several top managers Twitter had left. He still think that Twitter can bring together the world’s largest networked audiences around the world. Facebook & lt; FB.ETR & gt; & Lt; FB.NAS & gt; as the world’s largest online network has 1.6 billion active Nutzer./so/DP/zb
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