From CNET: Twitter the company has always struggled to live up to the hype of Twitter the product.
It's a world-changing service, whose instant communication has helped bring life to social and political movements like the Arab Spring, #BlackLivesMatter and #MeToo. It's brought people to the front lines of some of the world's most important stories. And it's the communication service of choice for President Donald Trump.
The company, meanwhile, has had a hard time finding growth, both in terms of profits and in terms of users. So its latest numbers may offer a ray of hope.
For the quarter ended March 31, Twitter counted 336 million users who logged in at least once a month. That's less than a sixth of the more than 2 billion that Facebook counts, but it's up from 330 million in the final quarter of 2017.
The question is whether that'll amount to anything more than a blip. In a March note to investors, the analysts at Oppenheimer Equity Research declared that even if Twitter regains user growth momentum and increased advertising, "long-term utility" is "still unknown."
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