Twitter Reports Small User Growth<br />and Profits in Second Quarter In the last three months, Twitter only grossed<br />an operating income of $76 million, which is<br />$18 million less than its first quarter. Out of their total quarterly<br />revenue of $841 million, Twitter<br />earned a net profit of $37 million. These results are in part due to the addition of only<br />5 million new daily active users to the platform. Their daily user figures are not calculated by the<br />number of accounts, but rather by the number<br />of daily users that are “monetizable” (mDAU). While these numbers aren’t groundbreaking,<br />they can be considered a result of the<br />profitable “stasis” Twitter has reached. Twitter’s mDAU figure was 120 million at the<br />beginning of 2018 and now sits at 139 million. They reported that $727 million of their revenue<br />this quarter was earned by selling ads, with an<br />additional $114 million made from data licensing. Twitter expects to make $875 million in<br />revenue next quarter, with an operating<br />income of, at most, $80 million.
