Headline August 27, 2018/ '' ' TWITTER !WOW! TWIRLS* ' ''

'' ' TWITTER !WOW! TWIRLS* ' ''

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The Pakistani students, all so named, stood up and tall, and  walked away from millions  of dollars or ad-revenue streams.

'That all for the elected students,' they said, 'After the global elections,' they said.

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TWITTER INC on one recent Friday said lost 1 million monthly active users from the previous quarter and warned the closely watched figure could keep falling-

As it deletes more and more  phony accounts, causing the biggest one day declines in the share price since.......2016.

The company said the work it was doing to clean up Twitter by purging automated and spam accounts had some impact on user metrics in the second quarter, and that-

It was deciding to prioritize tackling suspicious accounts and reducing hate speech and other abusive content over projects that could attract more users.

Allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election by spreading misleading or divisive content over social media have made the issue of improving control over accounts and content critical for Twitter.

Twitter, like bigger rival Facebook has been under pressure from regulators in several countries to weed out hate speech, abusive content and misinformation, better protect user data and boost transparency on political ad spending.

The user outlook came as Twitter reported higher-than-expected revenue thanks to the FIFA World Cup, video ads and booming international ad revenue. Twitter also earns revenue from licensing its data.

The quarter marked the first time overseas revenue contributed the majority of Twitters ad sales.

The World Cup brought in $30 million of revenue in the quarter. But Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal told analysts that the event, which carried into the third quarter, raked in less revenue in its second two weeks.

Twitter raised its 2018 capital spending forecast and said adjusted EBITDA margins in the third quarter would be below the second quarter's.

Twitter shares tumbled 19 percent to $34.75 in afternoon trading, making their biggest one-day drop since Oct 6, 2016.

The drop echoed that of Facebook on one July Thursday, when its share ended down nearly 19 percent after the company said spending to improve privacy and slower use growth in big markets would hit margins for years.

The reaction in Twitter shares to the user outlook may be overblown, some analysts said.

Twitter executives answered questions on the earnings call by saying the steps to improve daily user and advertiser experience would be a long term boost for the company, and that there had been no revenue hit.

Revenue of $711 million rose to 24 percent from last year and exceeded the average estimate $696 million.

Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said in a statement that daily users grew 11 percent compared to a year ago, showing that addressing ''problem behaviours'' was turning the service into a daily utility.

The company does not disclose daily users.

Segal said the efforts to improve accounts along with other factors had a negative hit to monthly active users of 3 million  in the quarter, which compares with the 1 million net decline, but added-

That efforts to improve quality of the accounts would take an even bigger bite out of third-quarterly  monthly users.

Twitter later said in blog post in early July that weeding the accounts would not hurt metrics because the accounts would mostly be inactive.

Monthly active users fell by 1 million in the second quarter from the first to 335 million. Analysts expected a gain of 1 million  users, and the results could harden concerns Twitter lacks a clear strategy to fix platform problems and grow usage and revenue together.

''We are making active decisions to prioritize health initiatives over near-term product improvements that may drive more usage of Twitter as a daily utility,'' the company said in a shareholder letter.

Twitter refers to platform ''health'' when describing the spam and other issues.

Twitter said the decline in the third quarter would be in the  mid-single-digit millions, suggested a sequential decline to around 330 million users.

Analysts had expected 340 million monthly active users in the third-quarter, according to  Thomson Reuters 1/B/E/S.

Twitter's relations with advertisers have been strained by concerns about phony accounts bought by users to boost their followings.

Profit was $100 million, with a $42 million boost due to a tax benefit. Non-GAAP earning of 17 cents per share were in-line with estimates.

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