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The ailing microblogging service Twitter has for the first time since the IPO in 2013, active users lost. Founder Dorsey announces additional conversion measures.

The short messaging service Twitter has been disappointing Geschäftzahlen presented. For the fourth quarter of 2015, the company 305 million active users, if the subscribers to an SMS-service herausrechnet. This was a decline of two million users within three months. Together with the SMS-service stagnated, the number of users in 320 million.

Also 2015 is a half a billion loss

The once rapid growth of the number of users on Twitter had in the last year, dramatically slows down, and all Attempts to restore momentum in, have so far been unsuccessful. The company never made a profit, the quarterly loss but by $ 125 million in the previous year to 90,2 million dollars to reduce. In the entire year of 2015, lost Twitter but, again, more than a half-billion dollars.

The already heavily battered stock lost in the post-trading more than 13 percent. Later flattened the Minus but to less than one percent.

Twitter CEO Dorsey

Company founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced that the how Twitter should be changed further. Among other things, whether Changes to the structure of replies to Tweets-planned, the current “confusing” and ” is the growth brake.

Previously the company had announced that its users in future not only the latest Kurzbotschaften, but, first of all the “best” will show. The new function with the name “Show me the best Tweets first” but this is optional and could be switched off again.

Dorsey makes in optimism

Dorsey told to continue with, he wanted the management team of Twitter expand. In January had more than one Top Manager Twitter leave. He think that Twitter, the world’s largest networked audience in the world could combine the stressed Dorsey. Facebook as the world’s largest Online network has over 1.6 billion active users.

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