Twitter's Next Milestone: 300 Million Active Users Before 2015 [CHART]

Twitter smashed almost every Wall Street estimation with its Q2 2014 earnings report released last night, and the stock subsequently went through the roof in the after-market, rallying more than 35 percent at one stage.

Part of the reason for this was Twitter’s stronger than expected monthly active user (MAU) number, which has now reached 271 million users, up 16 million from the last quarter, and the biggest single quarter-on-quarter increase since Q1 2013.

Over the last four quarters Twitter has added 53 million active users, which averages a little over 13 million new users per quarter.