Twitter soars after World Cup scores

Twitter’s shares have soared after it scored by tweaking its tweets service to capitalise on interest in the World Cup, including more prominent placement of photographs

Twitter’s shares have soared after it scored by tweaking its tweets service to capitalise on interest in the World Cup, including more prominent placement of photographs

As a result between April and June it halted a slowdown in user growth with investors reassured its popularity had not peaked. After the online messaging service reported the number of monthly active users rose by a better-than-expected 24 percent, the value of the company’s shares shot up by 35 percent. In early trading it rose 23 percent.

But some analysts remain cautious saying the jury is still out on whether it can become an internet platform on the same scale as Facebook. Arvind Bhatia, who works for Sterne Agee, said, “You have to look maybe at what happens in the next quarter and see if they can continue to have upside on the user growth.”

He noted, “The expectations going in had become quite low. Even in the US their performance was good. For now, that will put to rest some of the concerns about US growth.”

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