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Twitter has 316M active users; Majority of new additions SMS followers

Twitter currently has over 316 million monthly active users (MAUs) globally, reflecting a growth of 15 % year-on-year for the quarter ended June 30, marginally up 2.60% from 308 million MAUs, on a quarter-on-quarter basis. The company added that the vast majority of MAUs added in the second quarter on a sequential basis came from SMS Fast Followers. Twitter added 12 million SMS Fast Followers in the quarter, while core MAUs were 304 million. In the preceding quarter, the company introduced SMS fast followers: users who sign up and access Twitter solely via SMS. The number of SMS fast followers in the last quarter was approximately 6 million. Twitter is now working with Bangalore-based mobile marketing & analytics platform ZipDial which it bought earlier this year. Twitter and ZipDial had developed a platform where users could get could receive tweets from a Twitter account via SMS by dialing a phone number. Rishi Jaitly, head of Twitter India, had said that similar approaches would be developed to provide a “taste” of Twitter to those with limited internet access and tempting them to download their app. "It’s important to note that while sequential growth of SMS Fast Followers was strong in Q2, user activations are not necessarily linear for these types of users. As a result, net additions in future periods could vary," chief financial officer Anthony Noto said during the earnings conference call. Financials - Ad sales rose 63% y-o-y to $452 million. - Data licensing and other revenues rose 44% y-o-y to $50M. - Mobile was 88% of…

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