Twitter reported an increasing number of users and higher revenues, days after the chief executive promised to consider changes to the platform.
The company's sales increased in the first quarter to $ 787 million (£ 605 million), an increase of 18% over a year earlier.
The number of daily active users rose 11% compared to a year earlier to 134 million.
The company's founder, Jack Dorsey, has said that he thinks it is a shame that the design of Twitter encourages "outrage."
He told a TED conference in Vancouver last week that he was ready to make changes to the way the site works to try to make it more casual and discourage misuse and misinformation.
Social media companies are coming under increasing pressure to better control the content of their sites, following scandals about mental health, user privacy, hate speech, and political campaigns.
When the latest results from Twitter became known, Mr. Dorsey said: "We are taking a more proactive approach to reduce abuse and its effects on Twitter."
The company tried to reduce the pressure on the victims by using artificial intelligence to detect abuse and remove them before they were reported, he said.
"We will also continue our work to make Twitter more friendly through the launch of our public prototype app (twttr), with the ultimate goal of making the conversation on Twitter faster, smoother and more fun," said Dorsey.
Hindsight
At the TED conference last week, Mr. Dorsey said the company could downgrade preferences and followers, adding that in retrospect he had not designed the platform to emphasize it.
"We have seen intimidation, manipulation, and disinformation that are a dynamic that we did not expect 13 years ago when we founded the company," he told TED curator Chris Anderson.
The dynamics of the system made it "super easy to bother others," he said.
Cleaned accounts
Twitter reported a quarterly profit of $ 191 million compared to $ 61 million a year earlier.
In the course of last year, monthly users of the platform fell from 336 million to 321 million, which Twitter claimed was the result of clearing abusive and false accounts. But in the most recent quarter, monthly users rose again to 330 million.
In February, the microblogging site said that monthly user numbers would no longer be used as key data to measure their popularity. Instead, it shifts to a new statistic, "monetizable daily active users," which is defined as users who can see advertising on the platform.
The company's sales increased in the first quarter to $ 787 million (£ 605 million), an increase of 18% over a year earlier.
The number of daily active users rose 11% compared to a year earlier to 134 million.
The company's founder, Jack Dorsey, has said that he thinks it is a shame that the design of Twitter encourages "outrage."
He told a TED conference in Vancouver last week that he was ready to make changes to the way the site works to try to make it more casual and discourage misuse and misinformation.
Social media companies are coming under increasing pressure to better control the content of their sites, following scandals about mental health, user privacy, hate speech, and political campaigns.
When the latest results from Twitter became known, Mr. Dorsey said: "We are taking a more proactive approach to reduce abuse and its effects on Twitter."
The company tried to reduce the pressure on the victims by using artificial intelligence to detect abuse and remove them before they were reported, he said.
"We will also continue our work to make Twitter more friendly through the launch of our public prototype app (twttr), with the ultimate goal of making the conversation on Twitter faster, smoother and more fun," said Dorsey.
Hindsight
At the TED conference last week, Mr. Dorsey said the company could downgrade preferences and followers, adding that in retrospect he had not designed the platform to emphasize it.
"We have seen intimidation, manipulation, and disinformation that are a dynamic that we did not expect 13 years ago when we founded the company," he told TED curator Chris Anderson.
The dynamics of the system made it "super easy to bother others," he said.
Cleaned accounts
Twitter reported a quarterly profit of $ 191 million compared to $ 61 million a year earlier.
In the course of last year, monthly users of the platform fell from 336 million to 321 million, which Twitter claimed was the result of clearing abusive and false accounts. But in the most recent quarter, monthly users rose again to 330 million.
In February, the microblogging site said that monthly user numbers would no longer be used as key data to measure their popularity. Instead, it shifts to a new statistic, "monetizable daily active users," which is defined as users who can see advertising on the platform.
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