Donald Trump meets with Twitter boss Jack Dorsey

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Twitter has reported growth in revenue but saw monthly active users drop by six million on this time previous year, the firm's latest financial results show.

Despite the addition of new users this year, Twitter, in its monthly report, has said the company is still lagging behind its estimated figure of users.

With revenue, earnings per share, and user growth on a roll, Twitter investors should be pleased with the company's progress - especially since it's coming hand and hand with improvements in the overall health and quality of the service. The measure, which counts people who visit Twitter on a daily basis via a platform that is able to show ads, increased 12% to 134 million year on year.

Analysts were encouraged by signs Twitter had turned a corner in monthly user growth, but said that the new way of measuring users could make comparisons between Twitter and rivals like Facebook Inc. more hard. "We are reducing the burden on victims and, where possible, taking action before abuse is reported".

"Some of you will be very supportive of our meeting [with] the president, and some of you might feel we shouldn't take this meeting at all", he reportedly wrote. With platform health now Twitter's top priority, any growth in its important daily active user metric likely represents quality accounts.

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Its troubles had sparked speculation that it might need to sell itself to survive.

Facebook's (NASDAQ: FB) daily active users were up 9% year over year and 2% sequentially in its most recently reported quarter. U.S. President Donald Trump called on Congress to "get involved" regarding Twitter's "discriminatory" practices against Republicans. Constantly taking people off list. Twitter also just tends to see more substantial growth during its first quarter each year, so the bigger test will be if this recent growth can be sustained in the coming months. Later on spokesperson for White House also confirms the meeting.

He was not invited to a December 2016 meeting with president-elect Mr Trump that featured other major tech companies. "Lots of subjects discussed regarding their platform, and the world of social media in general", Trump said on Twitter.

However, eMarketer analyst Jasmine Enberg said the move to mDAUs is a positive one: "Twitter's decision to share only monetisable daily active users going forward is in keeping with its value proposition to advertisers - a committed though not very large user base when compared with other social platforms". Trump wrote of the Oval Office confab.

"Jack had a constructive meeting with the President of the United States today at the president's invitation", Twitter's statement said.

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