{"id":213,"date":"2014-05-07T14:38:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T14:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crayond.com\/blog\/?p=213"},"modified":"2014-07-18T05:55:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T05:55:05","slug":"facebook-vs-twitter-q1-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crayond.com\/blog\/facebook-vs-twitter-q1-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook vs Twitter [Q1 2014]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #CCC; border-width: 1px 1px 0; margin-bottom: 5px; max-width: 100%;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/slideshow\/embed_code\/34392020\" width=\"597\" height=\"486\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/investor.fb.com\/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=842071\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.twitterinc.com\/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=843245\">Twitter<\/a> have both reported\u00a0their First Quarter (Q1) 2014 financial results,\u00a0Twitter \u00a0has\u00a0managed to beat all the expectations by a decent\u00a0margin with an 119% increase in revenue as compared to Q1 2013 and an increase in monthly active users by 14M to 255M compared to Q4 2013. Meanwhile Facebook has continued its\u00a0domination in the social space and is further strengthening its grip\u00a0as a mobile advertising company with the Monthly Active Users (MAU), Daily Active Users (DAUs) and the Monthly Active Mobile Users all spiking up considerably. \u00a0In the last few months Twitter has been focussing more on\u00a0redesign to increase the user engagement and hence finding the different\u00a0ways of monetizing the product to impress its investors.<\/p>\n<p>The following are the highlights of the Twitter&#8217;s decent outing in Q1 2014:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Monthly Active Users (MAUs): 255 Million (as of March 31), an increase of 25% YoY<\/li>\n<li>Monthly Active Mobile Users: 198 Million, an increase of 31% to what it was a year earlier.<\/li>\n<li>Q1 2014 Revenue: $250 Million in revenue, an increase of 119% YoY.<\/li>\n<li>More than 90% of the company&#8217;s\u00a0revenue comes from advertising\u00a0and mobile contributes to up to\u00a080% of the advertising revenue. The company made another $24 Million through data licensing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The following are the highlights of Facebook&#8217;s Q1 2014 results:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Monthly Active Users (MAUs):\u00a01.28 Billion as of March 31, 2014, an increase of 15% year-over-year.<\/li>\n<li>Daily\u00a0Active Users (DAUs):\u00a0802 Million on average for March 2014, an increase of 21% year-over-year.<\/li>\n<li>Monthly Active Mobile Users:\u00a01.01 Billion as of March 31, 2014, an increase of 34% year-over-year.<\/li>\n<li>Daily\u00a0Active Mobile Users (MAUs):\u00a0609 Million on average for March 2014, an increase of 43% year-over-year.<\/li>\n<li>Q1 2014\u00a0Revenue: $2.50 Billion, an increase of 72% year over year. More than 90% of the revenue comes from advertising with mobile contributing to 59% of the advertising revenue. Facebook earned the rest of the 10% of \u00a0revenue from games and apps.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook and Twitter have both reported\u00a0their First Quarter (Q1) 2014 financial results,\u00a0Twitter \u00a0has\u00a0managed to beat all the expectations by a decent\u00a0margin with an 119% increase in revenue as compared to Q1 2013 and an increase in monthly active users by 14M to 255M compared to Q4 2013. Meanwhile Facebook has continued its\u00a0domination in the social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crayond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crayond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crayond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crayond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crayond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.crayond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"https:\/\/www.crayond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crayond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crayond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crayond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}