OREANDA-NEWS. April 27, 2016. Twitter may be making some inroads winning over people who have little interest in tweeting. The emphasis is on "may be" because the company for the first time didn't include SMS fast followers in its quarterly count of monthly active users.

Based on the new tally, the company on Tuesday reported 310 million people tweeted actively in the first three months of 2016, up 2 percent from the fourth quarter of last year, which had 305 million users. The revised user count both simplifies Twitter's disclosures and puts its user growth in a slightly better light, compared with the zero growth in monthly active users it reported in the fourth quarter of 2015.

Wall Street usually cares more about CEO Jack Dorsey's ability to attract new tweeters than it does about Twitter's sales and profit since user growth indicates Twitter's chances of reaching a mass-market audience. This time, though, investors did care about Twitter's revenue, and weren't happy about it.