Twitter is Nearing Profitability, But Still has a Serious Growth Problem

Twitter added just 4 million new users in the fourth quarter of 2014.

Twitter unveiled its 2014 fourth quarter earnings report yesterday and while the company’s financials beat estimates across the board, Twitter added just four million monthly active users (MAUs) between October and December of last year, representing quarterly growth of just 1.4 percent.

To put things into perspective, Facebook, which is already about four times the size of Twitter, grew by 3.1 percent in Q4 2014, adding another 43 million users.

Which means that Facebook added almost as many users in three months as Twitter has added in a year, despite the latter being a fraction of the size.

Twitter has a serious, serious growth problem.

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