Should We Still Be Concerned About Twitter's User Growth?

Should We Still Be Concerned About Twitter's User Growth?

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eMarketer’s social media expert Debra Aho Williamson discusses Twitter's earnings. What are we to make of this new "monetizable daily active user" metric? How did advertising revenues perform? And what can we expect from the platform in the coming months?

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