For Twitter, things aren't looking up quite yet. The tech giant announced its third quarter earnings today, and in the first full quarter since cofounder Jack Dorsey took the reins as interim CEO (and now official CEO) the company only managed to get 3 million more users, up 8 percent year-over-year. (If you count users who use Twitter over SMS, as the company does, the number is a little higher at 4 million, up 11 percent year-over-year.)
Twitter says it now has 320 million users total, but most of those new users seem to be coming to Twitter from outside the US.
For investors, the number of users and the growth of that number represent how the company is not only faring today, but also its prospects going forward. Dorsey will have to convince investors, as the company's chief financial officer Anthony Noto said on the last earnings call, that user growth will come, even if it they don't seem to be flocking to Twitter just yet.
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Twitter's stock was down at least 10 percent in after-hours trading.
