Twitter Grew Just 2% In The Last 6 Months (Instagram +23%, Facebook -3%) [STATS]

When Twitter filed its Form S-1 registration in October of last year, which contained all of the company’s key data going into the November IPO, its user numbers seemed a little soft. Many analysts and pundits (including myself) thought Twitter’s active user base would be in the region of 250-300 million. The actual number? 218 million, a pittance compared to its great rival, Facebook.

Indeed, and IPO aside, the period between Q2 and Q4 2013 was a pretty forgettable one for Twitter, as the network grew just 2 percent in users over that time, reports GlobalWebIndex.