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TwitterBy the end of the year, the short message service Twitter had only grown to 241 million users. The latest quarterly report therefore disappointed stock market participants, which is why the share price fell by around 10 percent.

In direct comparison to the same quarter last year, the fantuan database microblogging service was able to record an increase of 3.8 percent, but this was the smallest growth of a year so far. Accordingly, the share price also fell by 18 percent to 54 dollars. And the number of visitors also flattened significantly to 148 billion from the previous 159 billion.

However, in the fourth quarter of 2013, the company welcomed an average of 241 million active users per month, which represents growth of 30 percent compared to the previous year. Around 184 million visitors accessed the service via mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, which represents an increase of 37 percent in this segment.