Twitter Doesn't Want Companies Reporting Its User Numbers

Twitter has apparently been shutting down companies that access its API to publish the size of Twitter’s user-base.

Business Insider reports that multiple developers have been shut down by Twitter, ostensibly because they reported on how many users the social network has.

Being notoriously tight-lipped about its user numbers pre-IPO, it’s no surprise that Twitter would want to reign in speculation about how many users it actually has now that it’s a publicly traded company. After all, as