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What people are saying about Twitter’s earnings – on Twitter

Curious what people are saying about the social media company's latest earnings? We looked to Twitter for answers.

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Twitter reported a nearly doubling of its fourth quarterly revenue to $479 million, beating Wall Street expectations. The online bulletin board now has 288 million monthly active users, a 20% jump year-over-year. At the same time, it lost nearly $125 million. But investors liked what they heard, sending Twitter’s shares (TWTR) rising 12% in after-hours trading.

Below are some collected posts on social media about Twitter’s results.

From our very own Erin Griffith:

twitter earnings twitter is the most active time on earnings twitter

— erin griffith (@eringriffith) February 5, 2015

twitter earnings twitter is the most active time on earnings twitter

— erin griffith (@eringriffith) February 5, 2015

On Twitter and Medium:

.@Backchnnl The cross-ownership between @Twitter & @Medium makes warm fuzzy stories coming out around $TWTR earnings day feel orchestrated.

— David Hobby 📷 (@strobist) February 5, 2015

.@Backchnnl The cross-ownership between @Twitter & @Medium makes warm fuzzy stories coming out around $TWTR earnings day feel orchestrated.

— David Hobby 📷 (@strobist) February 5, 2015

On Twitter versus Facebook:

From $TWTR earnings report, easy to see that @twitter has a business & it will become a good business, but it won't be a ginormous like $FB.

— OM (@om) February 5, 2015

From $TWTR earnings report, easy to see that @twitter has a business & it will become a good business, but it won't be a ginormous like $FB.

— OM (@om) February 5, 2015

On Twitter’s seach partnership with Google:

https://twitter.com/dannysullivan/status/563464168716525570

New Twitter-Google deal all about driving people to newly planned curated views on “experiences, topics and events” @dickc says $TWTR

— Aaron Pressman (@ampressman) February 5, 2015

New Twitter-Google deal all about driving people to newly planned curated views on “experiences, topics and events” @dickc says $TWTR

— Aaron Pressman (@ampressman) February 5, 2015

Good news from Twitter about advertising:

Perhaps this is the stat driving Twitter's stock up: "Advertising revenue totaled $432 million, an increase of 97% year-over-year" #earnings

— Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) February 5, 2015

Perhaps this is the stat driving Twitter's stock up: "Advertising revenue totaled $432 million, an increase of 97% year-over-year" #earnings

— Lance Ulanoff (@LanceUlanoff) February 5, 2015

https://twitter.com/ReformedBroker/status/563447782032564224

On Twitter’s rise in share price Thursday:

https://twitter.com/WillOremus/status/563449754722791425

On growth (and criticism that it’s not fast enough):

Twitter's job, yet again, for upcoming conference call: Convince Wall Street they don't have a growth problem, even though #s say otherwise.

— Peter Kafka (@pkafka) February 5, 2015

Twitter's job, yet again, for upcoming conference call: Convince Wall Street they don't have a growth problem, even though #s say otherwise.

— Peter Kafka (@pkafka) February 5, 2015

Twitter stock now rising! Time to change the logo pic.twitter.com/gxhDQ8Fsem

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) February 5, 2015

Twitter stock now rising! Time to change the logo pic.twitter.com/gxhDQ8Fsem

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) February 5, 2015

Storyful contributed to this report.