[sebleon]

Twitter is profitable with revenues of $732M. What’s your definition of a business failure?

[GuiA]

Twitter is profitable as of 2 weeks ago, and with just $91M in profits. Let's wait and see where this ship goes over the next 2-3 years before claiming victory.

[gdilla]

Twitter has wracked up 2.5B in losses over like 11 years. Only now have they turned a profit. That is a failure in the time frame of its existence. http://time.com/4241716/twitter-losses-twtr/

[shaki-dora]

Twitter is almost certainly worth more today than their historical losses, making them a success.

[gdilla]

Is it? The opportunity cost of that $2.5B is what to compare to. You could have acquired instagram for half that, for example.

[m3rc]

Is Twitter now profitable? It was my understanding that throughout all of 2016 and 207 they were operating at a loss. And for a long time before that. If they're profitable this year it could be a turning point and I'd be wrong, at least going forward. But do we have enough data to support it at this point?

[PKop]

Let me Google that for you...

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/08/twitter-q4-2017-earnings-rev...

[m3rc]

So... a simple yes would have sufficed. They were not profitable, now they are. They may not be later, we'll find out.

[PKop]

You were already told they were profitable, in fact it was the comment you were replying to:

  "Twitter is profitable with revenues of $732M". 

What more did you need?