Title: Twitter Stock Soars Despite Losing Millions of Users | InvestorPlace
Headings: Twitter Stock Soars Despite Losing Millions of Users
Twitter Stock Soars Despite Losing Millions of Users
Twitter loses 9 million users and that’s a good thing (for now)
Twitter Reports Huge Decline in Monthly Users
A New Focus on the Health of the Platform
TWTR Beats Revenue and Earnings Estimates

Content: That includes government pressure over accounts that have been used to influence U.S. election results, growing demand to shut down accounts used to promote hate speech, and bots that skew numbers. Twitter spikes out that big MAU decline and owns it, pointing out that “decisions we have made to prioritize the health of the platform” are a key factor. That’s very different from users bailing on the platform. In contrast to the MAU decline, the company reported a significant 9% uptick in daily active users (DAU). This is also good news, suggesting Twitter account users are increasingly more active and more engaged — which has upsides in platform loyalty and ad sales potential. While a small MUA drop was met with consternation in Q2, the growing emphasis around building a healthy platform by weeding out undesirable accounts turned this quarter’s purge in MAU into a win for Twitter Stock. Of course, there were other factors as well. TWTR Beats Revenue and Earnings Estimates
Actively cleaning up its user base was one part of a winning quarter for TWTR. The other was financial. The company beat expectations for both revenue and earnings.