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Twitter sees monthly users plunge, will stop reporting the number
FILE - This April 26, 2017, file photo shows the Twitter app
icon on a mobile phone in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Twitter’s
monthly user base slipped 9 million year-over-year, according to the
company’s fiscal fourth-quarter results, which were released Thursday.
The
San Francisco-based firm’s monthly active users during the quarter were
321 million, compared to 330 million in the prior year’s quarter.
Monthly users also fell 5 million from the firm’s fiscal third quarter.
After
the fiscal first quarter of 2019, Twitter will stop reporting its
number of monthly active users in its quarterly results. Instead,
Twitter will use monetizable daily active users (mDAU) as its "audience
and engagement metric," the company explained, in a statement. TWITTER 'VERY SORRY' FOR SECURITY FLAW THAT MADE PRIVATE TWEETS PUBLIC Twitter
attributed the decline to sending fewer email notifications, moving
away from its SMS service with phone carriers and working to cut down
malicious accounts and focusing on the "health" of conversations on its
service. It said abuse reports from people who interacted with their
harasser declined 16 percent from a year ago, though it did not give
overall numbers. Changes the firm made to comply with the General
Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe had a lesser impact,
according to Twitter. The privacy law went into effect last year. HACKERS SPREAD ISIS PROPAGANDA BY HIJACKING DORMANT TWITTER ACCOUNTS Twitter
also disclosed its daily user base count for the first time, putting
the figure at 126 million, up 9 percent from a year earlier. These are
users who see ads on the platform and log in at least once a day. Twitter
posted fourth-quarter earnings of $255 million, or 33 cents per share,
in the October-December quarter. That is up from $91 million, or 12
cents per share, a year earlier. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Revenue grew 24 percent to $909 million. Shares fell sharply on Thursday, falling 9.8 percent to close at $30.80. Fox News’ Christopher Carbone and the Associated Press contributed to this article. Follow James Rogers on Twitter @jamesjrogers
Twitter cyber Account Attack appear to take over another high-profile account
Actress Chloe Moretz’s Twitter account was tweeting expletives Wednesday before the tweets were deleted, either by Moretz or by Twitter.
The tweets were sent to more than 3.1 million people who follow the
account. Trevor Duke-Moretz, the actress’ older brother, said her
account was a cyber attack. tweet On
another hacked account, owned by rapper Joey Badass, the attackers
published a direct message conversation that Moretz had with the
musician. That conversation and other tweets sent from the account on
Wednesday were deleted around 2:30 p.m.
Twitter on Wednesday afternoon announced in response to the hacks
that it would temporarily turn off the ability to tweet via text message
and use text messaging to verify an account. Online accounts are often
compromised when a hacker calls a victim’s wireless carrier and requests
to have the number transferred to a new SIM card, which is then used in
the ruboro phone calls to recover the password and gain access to the
account. “We’re taking this step because of vulnerabilities that
need to be addressed by mobile carriers and our reliance on having a
linked phone number for two-factor authentication (we’re working on
improving this),” the company said.
We’re taking this step because of vulnerabilities that need to be addressed by mobile carriers and our reliance on having a linked phone number for two-factor authentication (we’re working on improving this).
In one tweet, the account referenced “Chuckling Squad,” which also
claimed responsibility for Dorsey’s attack last week. Tweets also
included what alleged to be Dorsey’s Social Security number and links to
Instagram, where the hacker claimed to have posted nude photos of other
celebrities. The home address of one person was also posted before the
tweets were removed. Internet celebrity James Charles and YouTuber Shane Dawson were also recently targeted in similar attacks on Twitter. Twitter was not immediately available to comment. — CNBC’s Salvador Rodriguez contributed to this report.
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