Twitter in the same period in 2016 also lost 167 million US dollars last year's Q4 results so that investor confidence so huge that Twitter shares soared 12.11% on Thursday to close at 30.18 US dollars.
Of Twitter's $ 732 million in revenue, $ 644 million came from advertising, which accounted for 88% of total revenue, while the other $ 87 million came from data licensing and other revenue.
In fact, the quarter Twitter growth rate is not large, such as the number of users only 4% over the same period in 2016, revenue growth of only 2%, but Twitter has reduced operating costs by many ways, including the stock as salary, and delete Less R & D and marketing expenses, so that Twitter finally reached the profit target.
However, the market is also worried about the number of Twitter users has stagnated in the second half of last year, only maintained at 330 million monthly subscribers and few growth.