twitters stock was down more than 11 in afterhours trading on thursday after the company released its firstquarter earnings missing on user growth expectations and providing lower revenue guidance for the second quarter than expected   earnings 16 cents per share adjusted vs 14 cents forecast by refinitiv the company reported revenue of 104 billion for the quarter which was up 28 from 808 million a year prior twitter also reported a profit of 68 million contrasted with a loss of 84 million a year ago twitter guided that it is expecting revenue between 980 million and 108 billion in the second quarter analysts were expecting guidance of 106 billion on average according to refinitiv twitters total number of monetizable daily users grew by 7 million from the fourth quarter to 199 million but fell shy of analysts expectations of 200 million the user base was up 20 compared with a year ago the quarter marked twitters first period mostly without the presence of former president donald trump after he was removed from the service following the jan 6 insurrection at the us capitol twitter ad revenue grew 32 year over year to 899 million according to the report with total ad engagement growing 11 over the same period the company said it is still too early to understand the impact of apples privacy changes in ios 145 however twitter pointed out that its integration of apples skadnetwork enabled the company to increase by 30 the total number of ios devices it can reach with its mobile application promotion map offering