Twitter Adds Four Million New Users in Q3 as Its Losses Come Down

The microblogging platform will continue to offer 280-character limit to its users.

Can Twitter change its flailing fortunes for a change?

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Twitter has announced that it has significantly cut down its losses, and added nearly four million users in the third quarter of 2017 that ended in September.

The microblogging site reported a revenue of $590 million, down from $616 million this time in 2016 – a four percent drop – according to its earnings report released on Thursday.

Still, the company's losses narrowed, with a net loss of $21 million this quarter – down from $103 million this time in 2016. Things are definitely looking better now, as Twitter expects the next quarter to be profitable.

The company now has 330 million monthly users, up from 326 million last quarter, and 317 million this time in 2016.

The daily active users are also up 14 percent year over year, though Twitter did not give an exact figure on where those are at overall.

Having said that, Twitter confirmed they had miscounted monthly active users since late 2014, overestimating growth for the prior two quarters by one to two million.

This means that the company has actually lost users during the summer, when it said there was no increase in its user base. Further, Twitter hinted that the 280-character tweets would stay.

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The company said that it "remain(s) focused on making Twitter easier to use" and that its live programming "has significant momentum."