dick costello said it best when he talked about trolls. trolls have killed twitter, but if you kill the troll, you also kill a lot of -- there is a lot of collateral damage. all that said, twitter is here to stay. i'm a huge twitter user. there is a place to being able to reach the world in 140 characters. and it is the best search engine bar none to get current information. >> which stock do you want to trade? >> twitter to me is the one. i kind of sold out of it. i did sell out of it after the results. i did not like did dick costello's answers about what the platform is and how they will expand user, but i agree with cuban. they will a whole host of problems. they need to accelerate monthly active users. if they don't, they will never be a that mass market sort of whether he called it social net the work or a bull horn. so to me, i agree. i think it's a very useful thing. this is the sort of stock over the course of the year, you want to buy on pull backs p. but i believe the real time search, that's why google to buy them and i think i

. >>> finally, sam and laura, it is ski week and dick costellos tweeted he broke his collarbone on the very first day of skiing and he says that this is what happens when he tries to take a little bit of time off. >> that's a bummer. the rest of the week now is kind of rendered moot. >> a similar shot. >> thank you, scott. >>> it is 5:14. here's your ticket to a front row seat to this year's westminster dog show. for about $2 fans can download an app featuring live streaming of judging, live results and information on all 192 breeds. the westminster dog show starts today and runs through tomorrow. the app is available in apple's app store and on google play. >> a lot of pomp and circumstance for the westminster dog show. 5:14 on this morning, your microclimate forecast on the way. i listen to your advice this weekend, went out to the beach, a lot of people listened to your advice. it was slammed. >> it's one of those times of year you don't have the tourists as well. those were all locals more than likely. as we get into late spring and of course into the summertime months that's when

there's been a lot of buzz about replacing twitter's ceo, dick costello.no matter what the numbers this afternoon, it appears he has strong support from his board to keep his job. twitter stock jumped significantly on wednesday perhaps on expectations. we'll hear good news today. >>> let's check the markets this morning. landon dowdy is live at cnbc world headquarters. good morning, landon. >> hey, scott, good morning to you. futures are higher as the markets look to rebound today after stocks faded late in wednesday's session. oil prices remain in focus after crude plunged below $49 a barrel on reports of better than expected u.s. inventory numbers. look for data today on unemployment and worker productivity and labor costs. the dow closed up just six to 17,673, the nasdaq falling 11 to 4716. scott, back over to you. >> landon, thanks. >>> not only is san francisco bay area the most expensive place to live in the united states, it's the least equal. new analysis by joint venture silicon valley shows the average income in the south bay was $116,000, slight

here's dick costello, always a fashionable sort of fellow, the ceo of twitter. will report its profits after the closing bell today. more than profits, we care about user growth. can twitter continue to bring in new users. guys, my sister is a user of twitter, and if my sister used twitter, it must be popular, i tell you. my parents would never use twitter. can twitter get to the point where my parents would use it? they have iphones, that sort of things. has twitter maxed out the number of people? >> have you tried to convince them yet? >> i have tried to convince them. so far no joy. mom's on facebook, we got that far. >> who is the more improbable candidate your sister or the pope who has 5.5 million viewers. >> that's about even. the pope doing quite well. >> a lot of people to reach. >> which they have not. >> a vp to are figure. thank you. >>> time is 6:57 within final check of the day's top stories. jury selection begins today in the case against a man accused of killing chris kyle, the number one movie "american sniper" is based on kyle's life and his ti

dick costello does not believe it should be private. he thinks it should be an independent entity. we have a disagreement there, but he is running the company, and i'm not. if you can see the tire tracks on my back from just trying to make those rationale arguments, in a market that really will hang its hat on whatever it wants to hang on, whatever the trend is, whatever the quarter shows, as long as when i come back to, it is consistent. the minute that stops, income no income, but the revenues are there, this company may have a little bit runway hfd it. >> there is a guest on closing bell last night, i was listening to it on siriusxm, channel 12, by the way. there were 18 people in the discussion. the guy made the best comment. he said twitter is not engagement. it's not a social media company. it's a projection company. facebook is engagement. >> yeah, they're completely different animals. >> i thought that was interesting. >> well, you know -- >> that was a facebook moment. >> ad revenue accelerated. user growth, disappointing. >> loss. gap basis. >> only four million. >> that'

these are serious questions for ceo dick costello.fective leader who fell into the ceo spot. he's been making changes at twitter but critics say not fast enough. what twitter lacks really is a what now, or a what next. you talk about apple, what's next, right? a watch. tesla an affordable version of its sedan. twitter, there's nothing next other than just sort of growing it, but their growth hasn't been very strong either. >> right. >> people who like to use twitter use twitter and getting our parents into it, that stuff is not happening as fast as twitter would like. >> the difference is the companies have actual products. >> something they can sell, something where there's money exchanged and twitter is struggling as well. >> the video element would be a new catcher. >> they keep poking at new ideas, maybe they'll find something. >> thank you, appreciate that. >>> 5:52 right now on a monday morning. >>> it is monday. hopefully you had a good time last night. let's get your week started on the night note and christina is saying we ha

interview with dick costello tomorrow on "squawk on the street."utures on the rise as stocks look to shrug off concerns on greece. lost on the news ecb greece couldn't use bonds as collateral. claims raise 11,000 to 278 but the increase less than expected estimate 290. it has been 15 years since we've had two consecutive weeks below 280. >> wow. look, the cross currents here 327 yesterday the market looked like it was going to have not one, not two, but three maybe plus 200 dow days. a beautiful thing, setup great. one headline out of europe and kiboshes the rally. headlines 330 and 4:30 headlines get better. down day to up day. back in that european miasma driving everything crazy. in the end, there will be a deal. but -- >> do you? >> i reiterate the greeks win. >> greeks win? what sense? they sort -- get their swap? >> i think they get a different kinder againler germany. what makes me think that? 4.2% industrial bookings last night in germany. one of the reasons germany's -- >> on an estimate of 1.5. >> play nice. german economy is going to be

costello. we'll see how hots hot seat is for dick. >> it's a new month, we're kicking things off in slightly negative territory. the dow has been up and down. it's hovering around the flat line. the nasdaq is the underperformer, off ten. earlier it felt like flashback to december where we sat and sat at the 2,000 left for the s&p. a couple months later we're still pretty much looking at that level. >> let's talk about it. kelly conley from jhs capital advisers. sam stovall at the big board. tom metzel. brian jacobson from wells fargo and our own rick santelli as well. sam, you're a keeper a follower of the so-called january barometer which suggests that activity in january can foreshadow what will happen the rest of the year. january is in the books. what does it tell us about what could happen in 2015? >> that's right, bill. if you remember your old stock traders almanac. as goes january, so goes the year. and in the down years i think what it basically says is there's confusion. it's a confirmation of confusion rather than confidence and the average price change whenever we've had a down january ha