Twitter Q3 Earnings: 284 Million Monthly Active Users, $361 Million Revenue, $0.01 EPS

Twitter’s third quarter earnings for 2014 are out and the all-important monthly active users (MAU) number is softer than expected, which has sent the stock lower at the time of writing.

Twitter reported 284 million MAUs for Q3 2014, up 13 million on Q2’s 271 million, which is a million down on the lower end of analyst expectations of 14 to 17 million new MAUs.

Revenues were higher than expected, with Twitter earning $361 million for the quarter.