Twitter’s shares have soared after it scored by tweaking its tweets service to capitalise on interest in the World Cup, including more prominent placement of photographs. <br /><br />As a result between April and June it halted a slowdown in user growth with investors reassured its popularity had not peaked.<br /><br />After the online messaging service reported the number of monthly active users rose by a better-than-expected 24 percent, the value of the company’s shares shot up by 35 percent on Tuesday . <br /><br />But some analysts remain cautious saying the jury is still out on whether it can become an internet platform on the same scale as Facebook. <br /><br />Arvind Bhatia, who works for Sterne Agee, said: “You have to look maybe at what happens in the next quarter and see if they can continue to have upside on the user growth.” <br /><br />He noted: “The expectations going in had become quite low. Even in the US their performance was good. For now, that will put to rest some of the concerns about US growth.”<br /><br />Before this quarter Twitter has been battled to reverse a steady decline in its once-heady expansion pace. Expectations had subsided ever since the company stunned Wall Street in February with disappointingly low user growth.<br /><br />Twitter saw users increase to 271 million, still dwarfed by rival Facebook’s 1.3 billion.<br /><br />Timeline views, a measure of the engagement of its users, also exceeded expectations with a 15 percent increase, far outpacing the roughly 8 percent expected.<br />
