These 8 Stats Show How Twitter Is Staking Its Future on Video

The blue bird's not giving up yet

Twitter’s fourth-quarter earnings were not as promising as many had hoped, gaining just 2 million more users, declining advertising revenue and missing earnings expectations. However, there’s one area that Twitter hopes might help investors and advertisers have a little more faith in the social platform: video.

Last year, Twitter began betting on the future of live video, landing deals with everyone from the NFL and MLB for sports to Bloomberg and BuzzFeed for politics. Those partnerships, which began bearing fruit in the fourth quarter, could be a sign of which way the blue bird is hoping to fly in 2017.

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