SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter Inc reported anemic user growth during the final three months of 2013, sending shares sinking after its first quarterly report as a public company.
Shares dropped more than 10 percent to $58 in after hours trading.
The company reported robust made $243 million in revenue during the fourth quarter, topping investors' expectations of$218.2 million, on average.
But user growth, a closely watched metric, appeared to falter. It averaged 241 million monthly users, up just 3.8 percent from the previous quarter - the lowest rate since TWITTER (TWTR.NY)began disclosing its user figures.
Twitter's user numbers grew at 10 percent, 7 percent, and 6 percent during the first three quarters of the year, respectively.
Twitter, which held a highly-anticipated initial public offering in November at $26 a share, has divided investor opinion in the months since as shares more than doubled to more than $66 despite an absence of news.
(Reporting by Gerry Shih; Editing by Nick Zieminski)
