Tweeted too soon

This quarterly report will not soon forget the Twitter-Bosse. Almost an hour early was at this time that disappointing numbers, at the end was almost a fifth of the goodwill.

The short message service (Twitter has disappointed investors with its quarterly figures. On Tuesday the stock lost almost one-fifth, after key figures were leaked out prematurely. Twitter still mired deep in the red. In the first quarter there was a loss of 162.4 million dollars. Sales rose by 74 percent in the year-on-year to 436 million dollars. Twitter missed so that but both its own forecasts as well as the expectations of the analysts. The forecast for 2015 was also cut off.

Twitter had to pay earlier than planned during the regular trade, because key figures were leaked about an hour early. Keeping track of information on the company, specialising in the network you had published Selerity - ironically on Twitter. A similar coup in 2011 was already at Microsoft-Zahlen Selerity has succeeded. At that time they were at an early stage of the Internet and the Datenjagern has been discovered. This time also made a web site of the stock exchange Nasdaq accidentally found a version of the quarterly report.

Share punished

The Twitter-Share lost after the appearance of the figures initially almost six percent. It was then suspended from trading and crashed after the resumption. After the loss of 18.18 percent of the fictitious order book was gaveling once again by 1.6 percent down.

It also announced a Twitter acquisition and a partnership with Google to advertising in momentum. The company buys the company TellApart on Anzeigen-Dienste for retailers is specialized in. Dick Costolo Twitter-Chef was an early investor in TellApart. In addition, Twitter will also Anzeigen-Platze Doubleblick market via Google's platform.