Twitter Total Operating Expenses by Year

The below graph represents the annual operating expenses of Twitter, starting from the fiscal 2010 to 2019. The social media company reported a strong 19.5% YoY increase in its operating expenses, amounting to $3,093 million in 2019. That's representing a whopping 89.4% of Twitter's total revenue during last year.

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The above graph represents the Twitter total operating expenses by year, starting from the fiscal 2010 to 2019. The annual operating expenses of Twitter reached an all-time high of $3,093 million during 2019, showing an appreciable 19.5% YoY growth. The company’s total operating expenses include the cost of revenue, research and development expenses, sales and marketing expenses, general and administrative expenses.

RegionWorldwide
SourceTwitter Inc.
Graph ID911
NoteTwitter fiscal year starts from January 1st

About Twitter Inc.

Twitter Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) is a global social networking platform, created on March 21, 2006, by Jack DorseyNoah GlassBiz Stone, and Evan Williams. The company is based in San Francisco, California, and has more than 35 offices around the world.

Twitter is a microblogging website/app where people around the world share their thoughts by posting a Tweet which includes text, images, videos, gifs. Initially, the Tweet limit was restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, the company doubled its Tweet limit to 280 characters for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

In 2013, Twitter emerged as one of the ten most-visited websites on the Internet and has been described as “the SMS of the Internet”.

On November 6, 2013, Twitter priced its initial public offering (IPO) at $26 per share, which closed at $44.90 next day, giving the company a valuation of over $31 billion.

As of 2019, Twitter is ranked 41 of the top 500 websites on the web, Alexa web traffic analysis.


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