7 numbers Twitter should be worried about

It's been a bad week for Twitter. With users taking to the platform to decry the introduction of a new algorithmic timeline -- a feature that turned out to be opt-in, for now -- and share prices plunging, it's not looking good for the social network.                      
The algorithmic move was part of a wider shake-up of the network by new CEO Jack Dorsey. Since his reappointment as CEO in October last year, Dorsey has taken a number of bold actions, from the replacement of 'faves' with 'hearts' and the suggestion that 'longform tweets' will hit timelines later this year to laying off 8 percent of Twitter's workers -- announcements that have a decidedly mixed response.                                                                                                                                                            
But what are the most worrying numbers for Dorsey and Twitter? WIRED looked at the company's most recent quarterly financial report.

£62 MILLION

The most striking problem for Twitter is its net loss -- £62 million in the last three months of 2015. It's an improvement on last year's results, however, when the company reported a loss of £86m in the same time period.
                                                                                 
320 MILLION

320m monthly active users (MAUs) might seem impressive -- but it's exactly the same number as the previous quarter. It's the first time Twitter's user base has failed to grow.

2 MILLION

320m isn't the whole picture, though. Twitter also offers a service called 'SMS Fast Followers', which allows international users in India, Brazil and elsewhere to use an SMS version of Twitter. When you subtract this pool of people from Twitter's MAUs, its active user base actually dropped from 307m MAUs to 305m.                                                                                                          
3%

Twitter shares dropped by 10 percent immediately after the results were announced before recovering to a loss of 3 percent. Over the last year, shares in Twitter have dropped around 67 percent.                                                                                       

52%

Twitter's expenses also took a hit -- they increased by £408m, a 52 percent increase from the previous year.

£415 MILLIONAnalysts predicted that Twitter's revenue for the first quarter of 2016 would be £434million -- but Twitter has projected revenue at £415, this is £19m lower than predicted.

400 MILLION

While Twitter's user base has been stalling, other social networks have been experiencing significant growth. Instagram, for example, surpassed Twitter's user base in September last year and now has over 400m monthly active users. Snapchat has 100m daily users, and Facebook has over one billion monthly users -- five times that of Twitter.

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