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Twitter User Numbers Remain Key Ahead Of Q2 Earnings

Twitter (TWTR) stock is down more than 40% this year, reflecting Wall Street jitters that the company isn’t adding new users as fast as investors would like. Wall Street expects the micro-blogging service to again report a more than doubling of revenue, when the company posts its Q2 results after the market close Tuesday, but questions about its user growth and scant earnings continue to dog the company. Twitter, though, was up a fraction in early

Mobile Ads Seen Grabbing 50% Market Share By 2018

By 2018, more than half of all Internet ads worldwide are expected to be served via mobile devices, up from about 23% this year, according to projections compiled by research firm eMarketer. In the U.S., about 67.8% of ads served in 2018 are expected to be via mobile, up from about 33.8% this year, says eMarketer. Tech companies that make most of their revenue through ads — Google (GOOGL), Facebook (FB) and Twitter (TWTR), among others — have been

Twitter Upgraded With An Eye On User Growth

Twitter (TWTR) still needs to prove that it can attract a mainstream audience, says an analyst who on Tuesday nevertheless upgraded Twitter stock to neutral, or hold. Macquarie Research analyst Ben Schachter upped his rating from underperform, or sell. But Schachter said that despite Twitter’s “improving” financial results, he’s reluctant to recommend the stock until the company can improve its user growth. “In order to make the jump from niche to