Twitter’s latest quarterly report features some much needed good news for the social media giant—the company grew its daily active user base by 14 percent.
Company CEO Jack Dorsey (who hosted a Periscope chat with Tom Hanks and Emma Watson earlier this week) was in a generous mood after this good news.
How can we tell? Well, Casey Newton, Silicon Valley editor at The Verge, made a self-centered joke while reporting the story, but Dorsey took him seriously:
https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/857310045083582465
Thank you for your tweets, Casey
— jack (@jack) April 26, 2017
Other journalists then started pleading for Jack to notice them:
https://twitter.com/alexiskleinman/status/857310565345234945
Thank you for your tweets, Alexis.
— jack (@jack) April 26, 2017
Even the Observer’s own dana schwartz got in on the fun:
https://twitter.com/DanaSchwartzzz/status/857311638357192705
Thank you Dana
— jack (@jack) April 26, 2017
It may seem like these reporters were just sucking up to Dorsey, but he quickly squashed that rumor:
This is what happens when a tech reporter writes a positive tweet about a company. 💋 https://t.co/q2wukwmqmJ
— Anthony Quintano (@AnthonyQuintano) April 26, 2017
I'd thank him if he was negative too (which he sometimes is!)
— jack (@jack) April 26, 2017
Not everything is rosy for the company, however—Twitter also reported an eight percent decline in revenue, and its stock price dropped to just $14 a share.
Here’s hoping we still get a thank you tweet after reporting that.
