Before the takeover attack by tech billionaire Elon Musk, Twitter recorded the strongest increase in the number of users in years.
In the first quarter, the online service had 229 million daily active users who saw advertising in in-house apps or the web version.
That was an increase of a good 14 million within three months, according to figures published on Thursday.
At the same time, Twitter had to admit that slightly inflated user numbers had been reported since 2019 due to an error.
For example, the service had previously given the number of around 217 million daily users for the final quarter of 2021, after the recalculation it was still 214.7 million.
For some time now, Twitter has only mentioned the number of users who can be reached with ads.
Those who access the service via apps from other providers are left out.
Twitter quarterly revenue increased 16 percent year over year to $1.2 billion.
Analysts had expected a little more.
The bottom line was a profit of $513 million on the balance sheet.
The reason for this, however, was a special proceeds of 970 million dollars before taxes from the sale of the advertising company MoPub.
On the other hand, there had been a loss of around 123 million dollars in the operative business.
In view of the ongoing takeover attempt, Twitter no longer makes any forecasts and also conceded all previous targets.
Twitter initially resisted Musk's takeover attempt, but eventually went through with a deal.
In order for the Tesla boss to reach his goal, enough shareholders still have to give him their shares.
Twitter and Musk gave themselves until the end of the year to finalize the sale.
The stock climbed 0.5 percent to the $49 mark in premarket trading on Thursday.
The price is thus further away from the $ 54.20 that Musk is offering per share.