buber rival lift is losing more executives. it has confirmed the director products is leaving less than a year after first joining the company. it follows a string of executive exits including the vice president of operations and the vice president of engineering. comment on theto departures. ceo dick costolo struggles to add new members to twitter. uprd-quarter revenue was 114% year-over-year, but a third .uarter net loss the number of active users on the site grew, up 23% year over year, but the growth not coming quickly enough for some. shares were down as much as 10% in after-hours trading. almost a year since twitter went public, it was the first glimpse at the company's performance since costello shook up his team to speed up the launch of new products. johnson andre cory paul kedrosky. paul, i will start with you. obviously there continues to be this fascination with what is happening with user growth. is that fair, and is that the number we should be focusing on? >> i think it is fair. i think it is frustrating twitter.