US mDAU

International mDAU

Monetizable Daily Active Usage

International

Revenue By Geography

Revenue segments as reported by the company.

Advertising

Subscription and Other Revenue

Revenue Segments

Gross Profit, Operating Income, and Net Income as a percentage of Revenue

Gross Margin

Operating Margin

Profit Margin

Margins

An operating expense is an expense a business incurs through its normal business operations. Often abbreviated as OPEX.

Sales & Marketing

General & Administrative

Litigation settlement

Operating Expenses

Year over year growth in Revenue and Operating Expenses.

Revenue Y/Y

OpEx Y/Y

Growth

Cash & Short Term Investments

Shares outstanding refer to a company's stock currently held by all its shareholders, including share blocks held by institutional investors and restricted shares owned by the company's officers and insiders.

Outstanding Shares

Market Cap

Also known as Price/Sales Ratio. Calculated using Average market cap for the quarter / Annualized quarterly revenue.

Revenue Multiple

Twitter

Periscope is a live video streaming app for Android and iOS developed by Kayvon Beykpour and Joe Bernstein and acquired by Twitter before launch in 2015.

Periscope

Vine was a short-form video hosting service where users could share six-second-long looping video clips. The service was founded in June 2012, and American microblogging website Twitter acquired it in October 2012, just before its official launch. Users' videos were published through Vine's social network and could be shared on other services such as Facebook and Twitter. Vine's app could also be used to browse through videos posted by other users, along with groups of videos by theme, and trending, or popular, videos. Vine competed with other social media services such as Instagram and Mobli.

Vine

X, formerly Twitter, is a global social networking platform that allows its users to send and read 280-character messages. It enables registered users to read and post their tweets through the web, short message service (SMS), and mobile applications.  As a global real-time communications platform, X has more than 400 million monthly visitors and 255 million monthly active users around the world. X’s active group of registered members includes World leaders, major athletes, star performers, news organizations, and entertainment outlets. It is currently available in more than 35 languages.  X was launched in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass. X is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with local offices in Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Boulder, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Sunnyvale, and Washington.  X's international offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Dublin, London, Madrid, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney, Seoul, Tokyo, Toronto, and Vancouver.

Revenue

Cost of revenue

Gross profit

Operating expenses

SG&A

Other

Operating income

EBITDA

Net income

Earnings per share

Total assets

Current assets

Cash & equivalents

Receivables

Inventory

Non-current assets

Net PPE

Intangibles

Total liabilities

Current liabilities

Short term debt

Income tax payable

Non-current liabilities

Long-term debt

Total equity

Stockholders equity

Minority interest

Total liabilities & equity

Total debt

Net debt

Book value per share

Cash from operations

Funds from operations

Change in working capital

Cash from investing

Capital expenditure

Purchase/sale of investments

Purchase/sale of business

Other sources

Cash from financing

Change in stock

Change in debt

Cash dividends paid

Cash from other sources

Net change in cash

Free cash flow

“Privacy concerns don't trump the rights of the buyer," Elon Musk's attorney Alex Spiro said.

Elon Musk's lawyers cite whistleblower, accuse Twitter of making up ‘boogeymen' in data battle

The narrative created by the company's former head of security was “false,” executives said at an all-hands meeting.

Twitter executives push back against whistle-blower complaint.

Twitter's executives defended the company, and themselves, in a meeting with employees on Wednesday, one day after news broke that a former executive had blown the whistle on the company.

Twitter executives face questions from employees after whistleblower claims

Twitter Inc.'s former security chief Peiter "Mudge" Zatko, who has accused the social media company of misleading regulators, met staff in the office of U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal this week to discuss his whistleblower complaint, said two sources familiar with the situation.

Twitter whistleblower met U.S. Senate staffers this week -sources

European regulators are investigating Twitter over a whistleblower complaint made by a former head of security.

European Union investigating Twitter after whistleblower disclosures

Rosenblatt Securities downgraded the social media firm's shares and slashed its price target.

Twitter Whistleblower Could Get Elon Musk a Better Deal, Analyst Says

Twitter faced scrutiny from US market regulators over how the platform calculates the number of false or spam accounts, a topic at the heart of the firm's legal battle with Elon Musk.

US regulator queried Twitter on false accounts

NEW YORK , Aug. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- WHY: Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, announces an investigation of potential securities claims on behalf of shareholders of Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) resulting from allegations that Twitter may have issued materially misleading business information to the investing public. SO WHAT: If you purchased Twitter securities you may be entitled to compensation without payment of any out of pocket fees or costs through a contingency fee arrangement.

ROSEN, A TOP RANKED LAW FIRM, Encourages Twitter, Inc. Investors to Inquire About Class Action Investigation - TWTR

The explosive Twitter whistleblower complaint that was made public yesterday — detailing a raft of damning allegations across security, privacy and data protection issues (among others) by Twitter's former former head of security, Peiter “Mudge” Zatko — contained references to European regulators along with claims that the social media firm had misled or intended to

Twitter faces privacy scrutiny from EU watchdogs after Mudge report

Twitter General Counsel Sean Edgett also told employees the company reached out proactively to various agencies around the world before the news broke.

Twitter CEO tells staff whistleblower claims are ‘inaccurate'

Twitter has restated its position that spam accounts represent less than 5% of its members as the social media platform prepares for a legal battle against the world's richest man.

Twitter Insists Spam Accounts Represent Fewer Than 5% of Members

Twitter Chief Executive Parag Agrawal moved to reassure employees on Wednesday, calling a whistleblower's accusations "foundationally, technically and historically inaccurate," during a company-wide meeting, audio of which was heard by Reuters.

Twitter CEO tells staff whistleblower claims are 'inaccurate' -internal meeting

A whistleblower's claims that Twitter Inc. had lax security practices have added enough complexity to the social-media company's Elon Musk takeover saga that an analyst is caving on his once-bullish stance.

Twitter stock downgraded as whistleblower adds ‘meaningful uncertainties' to Musk deal odds

Twitter's former head of security is blowing the whistle on company practices that he says have jeopardized US national security and misled investors and regulators. With a nearly 200-page disclosure to the US government, Peiter "Mudge" Zatko has become the latest whistleblower to come forward from the tech industry.

The 5 key takeaways from the Twitter whistleblower

Twitter's spam account calculations have been the focal point of Tesla CEO Elon Musk's decision to terminate his deal to buy the company.

SEC asked Twitter about its spam account claims in June

The filing comes ahead of a highly watched legal showdown between Twitter and Elon Musk.

Twitter reiterates spam accounts fewer than 5% in response to SEC

Twitter Inc. TWTR, +1.77% received a letter from the Securities and Exchange Commission in June asking for more information on the company's latest annual report and user-count methodologies, and Twitter responded to the inquiries later that month, according to letters released on the Edgar platform Wednesday. The SEC document from June 15 asked Twitter to discuss the methodology and assumptions behind counts of monetizable daily active users (mDAUs) and to explain how the company discovered errors in three years' worth of old user counts, which Twitter disclosed in April.

Twitter had recent correspondence with the SEC over user-count methodology

Nearly 25 years ago, a young computer programmer named Peiter "Mudge" Zatko told Congress that the internet was woefully insecure. A big part of the issue, Zatko told a Senate panel, was that software and e-commerce companies "want to ignore problems as long as possible. It's cheaper for them."

Meet the former Twitter exec blowing the whistle on the company

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked Twitter to disclose its methodology on estimating spam accounts in a letter addressed to chief executive Parag Agrawal.

U.S. sends letter to Twitter CEO over spam account methodology

An explosive whistleblower complaint unveiled Tuesday prompted CFRA to cut its Twitter price target by nearly 30%.

Twitter Stock Downgraded As Whistleblower Complaint Gives Elon Musk 'Much Needed Ammunition' For Legal Battle

The former Twitter security chief is behind an explosive whistleblower complaint accusing the company of lax practices.

Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko is a cybersecurity celebrity who once said he could break the internet in 30 minutes

Legal experts share why the Twitter whistleblower's complaints are unlikely to help Elon Musk win the social media company's lawsuit against him.

Why the Twitter whistleblower likely isn't Elon Musk's silver bullet

A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to Insider the company is merging its anti-spam department with one that fights harmful content and misinformation.

Twitter is overhauling its spam-fighting team after a whistleblower accused the company of lying to federal regulators and Elon Musk about bots

Amid the chaos of Twitter's legal fight with Elon Musk and its ex-security head turning into a whistleblower, the company is merging its team for fighting misinformation and harmful content with the team that looks after removing spam accounts.

Twitter is merging its spam fighting and misinfo prevention teams

Startling new revelations from Twitter's former head of security, Peiter Zatko, have raised serious new questions about the security of the platform's service, its ability to identify and remove fake accounts, and the truthfulness of its statements to users, shareholders and federal regulators.

News for Twitter Stock (TWTR)