Wednesday 26 April 2017

All hail the Trump Twitter bump

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Twitter is growing. Twitter. Is. Growing.

The service has been mostly flat or shrinking for months, but not this past quarter. In the first quarter of 2017, Twitter’s Daily Active Users rocketed up 14 percent and the Monthly Active number is now 328 million.

It rose by 9 million in three months!

What else has been going on for three months?

Donald Trump’s presidency.

I know, that’s crazy talk. This turnaround is not Trump’s doing. It can’t be.

Twitter certainly doesn’t see it.

The social media platform cites significant progress in shutting down abusive behavior even as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey noted that they found that abusive accounts make up “a small percentage” of overall accounts. Read more...

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