<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"The first time Twitter reported earnings as a public company in early February, it didn't go so well. The company revealed that it had added just 9 million users in the December quarter, CEO Dick Costolo struggled on the earnings call that followed and the stock plummeted by more than 20% overnight. \nIn the months since then, Twitter has announced several acquisitions for social TV and data analytics, and plans to roll out 15 new types of ads. But when Twitter reports its first-quarter earnings results on Tuesday after the market closes, all eyes will once again be on user numbers.\nSee also: Coming to Your Twitter Feed: Ads That Preview Company Websites\n\"The focus this quarter remains on user growth and engagement following the softness in 4Q,\" Shyam Patil, an analyst with Wedbush, wrote in an investor note on Friday. \nPatil expects Twitter to report having 262 million monthly active users as of the end of the March quarter, up from 241 million in the previous quarter and 204 million a year earlier. Arvind Bhatia, an analyst with Sterne Agee, put his estimate a bit lower at 254 million monthly active users for the quarter.\nTwitter's team has worked in recent months to make the social network more intuitive to new users by redesigning conversation threads and making its profile pages resemble those on Facebook. The company is also testing a new signup experience to improve the user onboarding process.\nEven at the high end of analyst estimates, Twitter is still well behind its own previous expectations for growth. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Twitter execs had expected to hit 400 million monthly active users by the end of 2013.\nTwitter's overall revenue for the quarter is expected to be $241.5 million, thanks to growth in ad revenue, according to analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. However, the company is still not expected to profitable. The consensus is that Twitter will report a net loss of $0.03 per share. \nTwitter's stock topped $70 a share in December, the month after the company went public, but the price of shares has dropped steeply since then following the disappointing earnings report, a broader shift in sentiment for tech stocks and looming concerns about a stock lockup period that's about to expire. Twitter may try to ease investor concerns on the latter point during the earnings call on Tuesday.\n\nTWTR data by YCharts\nHave something to add to this story? Share it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://mashable.com/2014/04/29/twitter-q1-2014-earnings-preview/>