Twitter 4th Quarter Figures | Tops the earnings against expectations. Stock Rose to 12%

Twitter 4th Quarter Figures | Tops the earnings against expectations. Stock Rose to 12%

The company reported a 97% jump in quarterly sales as it pursues profitability. 

Twitter reported jump in sales in the fourth quarter 2014, continuing its impressive streak of doubling revenue nearly every quarter.  One criticism: Twitter is not profitable, and continues its streak of losing a lot of money. In 2014, it earned $1.4 billion but posted a net loss of $577 million. But despite all these negative comments, Twitter beat earnings estimates by a significant margin, earning $497 million on an expected $453.6 million in sales.

Investors and analysts have always criticize the  Declining user growth and lack of Vision even demanding CEO Dick Costolo to step down. But this weak positive news were in the market of reaching out a with Google of showing real time tweets from in the search results. That really a big jumps for twitter.  

Google Earned $ 66 Billion in Year 2014

Twitter has announced its 288 million monthly active users. This is a 20% increase over last year, and includes the loss of four million users due to third-party integrations.

However in the conclusion; Twitter is unprofitable, but it is appears to be closing the gap to profitability. In the fourth quarter of 2013, Twitter posted a net loss of $511 million on $242 million in revenue. In 2014, that shrunk to a net loss of $125 million on $479 million in revenue