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April 27, 2017

Twitter revenues fall, despite Trump tweets

By BARBARA ORTUTAY
AP Technology Writer

NEW YORK — You'd think Twitter would be able to milk its status as President Donald Trump's megaphone. But the company still faces stagnant user growth, has never made a profit and even reported a quarterly revenue decline Wednesday, a first since going public.

Trump's frequent tweets ricochet well beyond his 28 million Twitter followers. Anything he tweets can serve as fodder for social media, TV news shows and, often, late-night comedy. Analysts say Twitter's user engagement — how often people respond, retweet or “like,” for instance — likely benefited from “political discourse” in the first quarter.


 
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