The Twitter IPO By The Numbers

Here are some accumulated statistics from our scouring of the Twitter IPO filing for your perusal. The overall number show a company with good but slowing growth in users, solid revenue in mobile but no profit yet to show.

Twitter is absolutely a mobile-friendly company, with some 75% of its monthly active users coming on portable devices. About 65% of its ad revenue comes from there too, in sharp contrast to Facebook, which had no mobile revenue at the time of its IPO.

• Daily Active Users – Over 100M


• Monthly Active Users  - 218.3M


• Revenue 2010 – $28.3M


• Revenue 2012 – $316M


• Revenue 2013 1st half – $253M


• Loss 2012 – $79.4M


• Loss 2013 1st half – $69.3M


• Shares of Stock Issued - 472,613,753


• Accumulated Deficit – $418.5M


• MAUs on mobile – 164M, that’s 75%


• Ad revenue from mobile – 65%


• Tweet impressions – 30B


• Total tweets – 300B


• Spam (Fake) Accounts – 5%


• R&D As Pct of 2012 Revenue – 37.5%


• R&D in 2013 1st half – $111.8M


• Websites Integrating Twitter – 3M


• Registered Twitter Apps – 6M


• Patents – 6


• Liabilities – $255.9M


• International Revenue 2012 – $53M


• International Revenue 2013 1st half – $62.8M


• Employees – 2,000

Image Credit: Bruce McKay

The Twitter IPO By The Numbers