Twitter kept gaining new users after it banned Trump
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Twitter doesn't need Donald Trump to keep growing. The company said today that it ended 2020 with 192 million daily users, and the figure continued to grow in January - the month when Trump was banned from the platform. Twitter didn't offer a specific daily usage figure for January, but it said daily user growth was above the historical average from the last four years."
We are a platform that is obviously much larger than any one topic or account," Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said - without specifying which one account he might have in mind - on a call with investors today.
The usage details were given in Twitter's Q4 2020 earnings release, which covers October through the end of December 2020. That means the release wouldn't normally...