well i don't think twitter should be banning conservatives i don't think that twitter should be banning anyone unless they're engaging and buying with threats or posting graphic violence i mean i didn't actually break any twitter rule i've never harassed anyone on twitter certainly never engaged in violent threats i've never docks anyone many many many users have sent explicit violent threats my way and have harassed me and twitter has done nothing to address that they've been me for political reasons because i was sharing opinions and asking questions that you know i guess certain twitter employees didn't like again i'm only guessing because twitter has never actually communicated with me about why i was banned so. all right well we'll be following your story so far thank you so much for your time and thank you for sharing your views over here and our to international that was meghan murphy canadian writer and founder of the block feminist current. u.s. president donald trump will declare an national emergency to secure funding for a border wall with mexico the white house has also ann

that is what brings you to twitter. nedly: twitter cfo to segal there. i want to stick with twitter and bring in salina way who covers twitter for us. there is something he said which is we are not trying to get people to come back monthly which was intriguing since you know, as a quarter ago that was the number. >> ever since twitter has been a public company, investors have been clamoring for a daily active user numbers. in 2017, the fcc asked twitter why they don't disclose the actual number. twitter said they didn't want to invite unfair competition and growth rate is more important than the number. but here we are they and they are disclosing the physical number. now undoubtedly, daily active users is a more important metric for advertisers. if somebody is only coming once a month, it is not a valid user -- viable user from an advertiser's value proposition. daily active users is what they have been using internally to growth metric to drive for several years, but it is convenient they decide to phase out monthly active users right as it is decreasi

what if twitter and snap never have a long trajectory. >> i think that's the right scenario twitter is what it needed to, clean up the numbers, clean up the experience for users, that means getting rid of online harassment and getting bots out of the system. the monthly numbers have dipped. but that's a good thing. in 2018, the first profitable year, and advertising is rising. so to henry's point, this is a good business. it is smaller business than facebook by magnitudes i don't think we can expect that sort of growth snap came in earlier this week at a similar scale in terms of user base. the question i would have if i were an investor in twitter on their board, is there a way to get to the next level? is there a way to grow, is there a way for them to enter the really big leagues as a social network. i don't think jack dorsey has shown he has the answers. >> for awhile we thought it was nvidia is it not? >> we have some attraction with them, but i don't think they've shown they can get in the same place as youtube which owns the news video area or increasing competition in streaming

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that is what brings you to twitter. emily: that was twitter cfo ned segal.oming up, alphabet reports fourth-quarter results, new pressure on margins and spending. we will bring you the highlights. plus, gopro has struggled to attract users, but last quarter showed a pickup in sales. we hear from the gopro ceo. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emily: alphabet reported fourth-quarter revenue that beat expectations, but heavy spending on the cloud business resulted in thinner profit margins. they addressing rising costs on the earnings call. ruth: the key drivers were, first, content acquisition costs, primarily for youtube, mostly for our advertising -supported content, in what is a seasonally strong quarter for youtube. but also for our newer subscription businesses, youtube premium and youtube tv, which have higher cac as a percentage of revenues. emily: some guests joined us monday to give us their thoughts. >> this is not a revenue problem. this is an operating margin problem. we saw that even though revenue in the core advertising business was quite strong and even

network tictoc on twitter.is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emily: welcome back to "the best of bloomberg technology." i am emily chang. 15 years ago this past monday, a young mark zuckerberg launched what is known as facebook and just a couple years after, roger mcnamee was a mentor to mark zuckerberg. now things have changed and he has gone from backer to vocal critic. this is from an gmail that he sent to zuckerberg and sheryl sandberg -- "recently facebook has done something truly horrible and i can no longer excuse its behavior. it is allowing harm, it has the power to stop the harm. what it currently lacks is the incentive to do so." he joins us from new york to talk about the book. roger: with respect to the earnings, it makes total sense that they would've had a blowout quarter. remember if you are an , advertiser, you have to go where the audience is and facebook has the largest audience on earth. it have the best targeting. its ad products are second to none. i am trying to target people with a book reach people with

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if twitter can be a weapon of self-destruction, what happens to twitter i don't know what was behind this move today. >> that's interesting, melissa again, this sounds to me like now we're giving elon musk a lot more credit. you know, he's the reason why twitter's valuation is the way that it is that's almost as absurd as tesla's valuation. so i hear you and i do think his tweets are the subject of enormous speculation, laughter, horror, you tell me. but when i think about it, twitter responding because i think twitter would have a much bigger issue if the president stopped tweeting rather than elon musk. the reason twitter is such a great platform, this is happening in realtime. there's a lot of really smart people doing a lot of work on tesla than a lot of the people that own the stock i bet most of the retail investors that own the stock haven't even read the 10k. but the people on twitter follow this stock really closely and that's interesting. >> the people who have done the most work are probably the people playing it from the short side that have been frustrated for the last c

don't go to twitter for your news go to twitter to communicate and read what other people are thinking and reacting to but it's not a news source but you're seeing the nineteen and twenty year olds you teach using it as a news source. yes and i tell them that they're going to the wrong place if you use that as a stepping stone if you see this something in the news that's happening and you see it on twitter follow it to a real news source because you need to know if it's real or not it may not be real right it's somebodies view and i would like to think that most people are nicer than they say i'm on facebook and on twitter which many seem to be using to vent we lost aid. dear chum this past year gifted writer producer and voice of god nick michaels who reckon that in the over communicated world whisper becomes a scream paul with dialogue now so loud and coarse and that tone producing results for our outspoken president is civility now quaint i hope that civility never becomes coined or outmoded and i have many many times though i voted for this president cringe at what he says and how

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a feminist claims a leftist is suing twitter, making -- twitter banter after tweets on the transgender she violated rules when she referred to a transgender woman as he. jenna ellis and robert mozilla, thank you for being with us. i want to play something megan murphy has to say in a youtube video. >> don't use users that use pornography and violent threats and twitter claims are prohibited on the platforms to remain on-site. in other words twitter ignores its own rules and policies and never been transparent about its practices and refuses to be accountable for its ideologically motivated efforts about free speech. >> they are very precise about who they target but she says there are violent crazy people still out there that twitter isn't cracking down on. >> one of the good things about this country as it is a free country and what freedom of speech is is freedom from governmental interference in an individual's right to free speech, twitter is a private company. a restaurant or hotel a movie theater, they can regulate what they want on their platform. you can search your own social

let's talk about twitter.mpany you focus on, they're all pushing money for security. facebook got foregiven for putting so much money into security. alphabet got punished for doing the same thing. what do you expect from twitter? >> fasten your seat belts. twitter is historically one of the most volatile stocks on earnings reports days. it's not uncommon monda more thk to rally or fall by 20%. we've seen facebook and snapchat, they set the tone. less bad is good this quarter, so facebook had some small user growth in the u.s., which really got investors excited. snapchat just stemmed losses and people were excited about that. cheryl: because it wasn't as bad as everybody thought. snap has had a rough year since they went public. $321 million is the estimate from fact set for daily user growth. i'm curious about the ad spending. all the platforms depend on advertising from the end of the day. what do you expect from twitter? >> they had a strong increase in ad spending last quarter. absolutely, what does the ad

twitter is a private platform.till have a reasonable expectation it won't be selectively enforced for one opinion versus another one. megan also posted that men are know women. that's not an opinion. that's posting facts. when twitter is just enforcing their user agreement for one person over another, then users have a right to expect that their same exact user agreement open to the public and you agree to the same terms and conditions, it won't be enforced just based on one tweet over other. >> shannon: robert, has this become a public forum? respond quickly. there would be different rights for discourse. >> no, because it's not funded by the u.s. government. it's a private platform. this individual which start her own social media platform. he was just on youtube. use that platform. we are a free country. >> shannon: will she get kicked off youtube as well? >> this is not a traditional public forbum. we are ignoring the fact there is a user agreement and twitter invites is the public to create the same accounts a

what exactly is twitter doing differently? sarah: twitter will do what it rolled out in the u.s. is more of a transparent archive for political ads. in the u.s., this is something facebook and google have already done with mixed results. there is lack of transparency in terms of the verification process. people get verified as political advertisers even though they aren't, but at least it is a step in the right direction. what twitter is doing is basically what the honest ad s act, one of the big proposals by congresspeople this year, to get there to be a similar level of transparency in digital ads as there are for ads in tv and radio. emily: how is this different from what twitter has done in the past? sarah: they are expanding it. now they have expanded it to the u.k. facebook is rolling this out around the world ahead of various elections. they say they will have it worldwide in the summer. it looks like there was going to be a standard across facebook, google and twitter for political ads going forward. emily: talk to us about where facebook stands. sarah: facebook, in the u

>> i would rather twitter.here i've been all along so there's nothing new here i struggle with snap's ability to grow and the bar was so low in terms of their user metrics they're changing their user metrics, et cetera, et cetera. i realize twitter is not a sexy growth story, but i'm encouraged by the consistency and the double-digit dau growth and the fact their ad revenues are growing north of 30%. >> i'm more on the ad growth side because i think they have slowed down to the point that they got what they have got. maybe they grow a little bit but it's about the advertising i think going into the presidential campaign the next year and a half, two years, they are in a great spot. meanwhile, i look at snap and say other than short covering, why is that stock even higher than it was? guy adami. >> he asked a question so in class you have to raise your hand pete picked me out i'll give you the answer to that question i think the missteps of facebook is one of the reasons snap has gone from 6 to 10 because facebo

maria: on twitter? >> dagen: , yeah, there's advertising on twitter. ads well. it doesn't -- you're on instagram, i'm liking clothing companies, linens and decorative arts, like decorators. that's what i get pitched. on twitter, it's so politically driven, it's so news driven, if somebody's liking president trump's tweets all the time, that doesn't tell procter & gamble that they're more likely to buy their laundry detergent. maria: instagram does that. dagen: the behavior of people on twitter doesn't let the company target them. maria: there's too much hate. >> i think there's a lot of that. they've proven to be not quite as successful, for example, as say a facebook or instagram in terms of the targeting and the matching of the ads to your expressed interests. i think that's been one of the issues. >> okay. but that doesn't tell us why the user growth isn't robust. right? because i find it a very useful product. as you were discussing, is it just that people end of the day like entertainment better than news and twitter is more of a news vehicle? >>

i never thought twitter should as well. i think it was painful but they'll reap the rewards having done that. i think the reason the stock is down as much as it is because first quarter guidance wasn't great and the stock has banged up against $35.50 three times the last 12 months i think you buy it again. >> this is a company that has $6 billion in cash, three net of debt i think they should be making small tuck-in acquisitions and not spending the whole nut on something big. those are the incremental things that you can see revenue growth accelerate again. >> for more on twitter head over to cnbc.com. i'm melissa lee, you're watching "fast money. here's what else is coming up on "fast. >>> big bank, small bank, i like to make money. >> yeah, so do we. one technician will tell you exact exactly which names to buy in the financial sector to make sure you're bringing home the big bucks. plus -- it's been a wild ride for general motors this year as shares are soaring isers ttg der is b etrad ibein th is just the beginning of

on twitter photos and sharing. and government just doesn't have any control over that except for trying to have times to interrupt and stroll down the internet but that also america and hasn't really worked people have found ways to spread that information hashtags like us just fall become dave popular and this is just been an incredible way to share information we work to document everything the regime crimes and violations the wounded the mater as many details as paul. people in our videos and pictures it is very clear who is committing the crime so the existence of thirty two media acts as a very major deterrent then you have these pro-government trolls that try to influence how news is perceived in salon their call nicknamed edgy dad the attorney or to be translated as of trying a key concern which is a play off of the word jihad that injected in so many different than what subgroups on facebook groups most of them are in sudan but also they went from outside the country you see them always arguing issuing stat

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let's go to twitter, though. twitter is on the struggle bus. little blue bird might have beat analyst estimates on earnings and revenue, but the company revealed it has 60 million fewer daily active users than snap does. here to weigh in, mobile nation senior editor russell holley, who covers the tech industry extensively along with global x fund senior executive whose fund owns twitter and snap and what do you have? billions in assets. $8.5 billion in assets under management. i would actually like to start with you. you have actually bought both snap and twitter. when did you buy them and are you happy with the performance? >> sure. the objective of our social media fund is to buy the major social media companies around the world so with twitter and snap, these were added right after their ipos in an effort to really capture the whole market. in terms of whether -- liz: i didn't know fox business had a stock. never mind. get rid of that. >> in terms of the performance, you know, have we been satisfied, if you look globally at the social media

profits down as well of course what's it all about what's it mean for twitter well that's what we're going to. pick a managing director and co-founder of a factory daily and he joins us from bangalore good to have you with us i believe that this hearing this pall of entry panel has already taken place what's the outcome. yes so does help public policy met with the panel it earlier in. the family wants. which is one you want to have an influence free elections the c.e.o. especially when it comes to black widow. facebook and what's. the. our number two we want more transparency on advertisements and sponsors for some prevail and number three they want work rules all will be action star in india my facebook already done some things to prevent misuse of the platform the monster who is allowed more political transparency when times are opposing our producer also hold out made it stricter for being rather dies unless you're president of ours and so on and so forth are so you have to apply in advance if you if you are political. so that the alarm changes which triggers make him and who has

and number three, we are counting you down to twitter's results. will be out in over one hour we'll break down all the things you need to watch when they report all that and more, hard to believe, as worldwide exchange rolls on right now ♪ ♪ keep on rocking in the free world ♪ >> again, this goes to our theme on this show, which is great musician that is are labelled about i their worst song worst song by neil young like "start me up" by the stones "born in the usa" by bruce i'll stop. welcome back thanks for being with us here on cnbc hi, i'm brian sullivan let's kick off the second half of the show with the executive recap. frank holland back with all the news you need to know. zoo here's what's leading cnbc.com right now we are still following the latest developments out of venezuela. that nation's opposition leader juan guiado will name a new leader to citgo. it could come as soon as this week citgo is owned by venezuelan oil giant pervesa. it could cut off money to nicolas maduro >>> stateside sffed chair jay powell made comments during a town

transcript of the interview netanyahu is the official twitter account deleted the phrase war with iran and replaced it with combat but in the original video you can hear the prime minister saying in hebrew the word that translates as war iran's foreign minister the regional tweet exposes netanyahu is true intentions adding the whole world now knows them to. the middle east summit in poland the warsaw because meanwhile the u.s. vice president mike pence has just lashed out at iran the greatest. peace and security in the middle east. is the islamic republic. one political analyst we spoke to thinks netanyahu swore comments about iran are a way of saving his own reputation at home. iran has shown to be a prudent party a very responsible one it knows their real objectives behind this move that has been done by netanyahu this move has been done for domestic purposes as well as international ones under the massive scene we do remember that netanyahu and his wife are you know accused of. financial corruption so the best thing to do on the eve of the election new elections in israel is finding

th come to twitter a specific objective in mind. they tell us what audience they want to reach or whatth part of e world or demographic they want to reach and we help them realize their objective. >> somest ana raising concerns about stopping the monthly number that's been a constant since its 2013 ipo. >> when you change the goal post, no matter how articulate your angument is for d so, there's usually a bad reason. and so i tak this as a negative. >> as for what will drive twitter's nt leg of growth, he said most of their revenue is from big brand and they're working to make it easier for small and medium businesses to spend on tfo platform. "nightly business report," i'm julia boor >>> tapestry finds itself out o fashion ahat's where we begin the market focus. the luxury retailer cut its full year profit forecast after reporting its firstuarterly ss in two years. the company cited weak sales of its kate spade brand and the slowing global economy we've been talking about. tapestry also owns coach and stewart wiesman's brands. shar

still to come for you facebook and twitter has banned thousands of venezuela and a consummate u.s. threats against the country we'll tell you why just after the break. most people think just stand out in this business you need to be the first one on top of the story or the person with the loudest voice of the biggest race in truth to stand losing business you just need as the right questions and demand the right answers. question. seemed wrong but. just don't call. me. yet to shape out this day become educated and engagement because of the trail. when so many find themselves worlds apart. just to look for common ground. i. know again now let's set return to our top story this hour because the u.s. secretary of state has accused russia of noncompliance with the intermediate range nuclear forces treaty mike pompei i threatened to pull out of the deal this summer if moscow doesn't change its behavior. the united states will therefore suspend its obligations under the n f treaty effective february second we will provide russia and the other treaty parties with formal notice that the un

a woman is suing twitter for allegedly violating her freedom of speech after eight pound terrified tweets targeting transgender children transgender people and saying men and not women. pounds an experimental russian film tops the stalinist truman show spock's contriver see if allegations of violence on set. watching aussie and smash no welcome to the program. our top story. francaise conducted asterix in the central african country of chats and a bit too of. the aerial attack helps the child up to two hundred fifty five it is but french support for the current leadership in chad is touring criticism as any petrenko explains just to the south of libya and between countries like nigeria and sudan there's a rare patch of relative stability called chad well it's just been bombed by france and you know what it's become even more stable after that because you don't president. in writing to intervene to prevent a coup d'etat and protect his country. so they save the government from the rebels the militants on dozens of pickup trucks had crossed over from libya thinking they could take the capit

i will miss suing twitter for that to be violating his freedom of speech after a bomb scare over tweets targeting transgender comments a russian film the stalinist truman show sparks controversy allegations of violence on sat's. is just ten five pm head in the russian capital you're watching are seeing international. france's conducted as strikes in the central african country of chad and the bid to invest a coup to the aerial attack helps the chaldean army captured two hundred fifty fighters but it's french support for the current leadership in charge is drawing criticism as they leave the trunk explained. just to the south of libya and between countries like nigeria and sudan there's a rare patch of relative stability called chad well it's just been bombed by france and you know what it's become even more stable after that. president. in writing to intervene to prevent a coup d'etat and protect his country. so. they saved the government from the rebels the militants on dozens of pickup trucks had crossed over from libya thinking they could take the capital but chad's president deby is

a woman is suing twitter legibly violating her freedom of speech after it bans her every tweet style right to the transgender people saying men and women. an experiment a russian cell dubbed the stalinist truman show sparks controversy allegations of violence and sets. you watching artsy international welcome to the program. paris has conducted as strikes in the central african country of child's in the bed to have secured the ta the ira let's talk helps the child in the army captured two hundred fifty fighters front to support for the current leadership in charge has drawn criticism as if the trunk oh explains. just to the south of libya and between countries like nigeria and sudan there's a rare patch of relative stability called chad well it's just been bombed by france and you know what it's become even more stable after that because he's gone president deby asked us in writing to intervene to prevent a coup d'etat and protect his country. so they saved the government from the rebels the militants on dozens of pickup trucks had crossed over from libya thinking they could take the

parmy 0lson from forbes says like facebook, twitter is having to address major issues, but it's still8 for both those social media companies was a horrible year in terms of reputation, fake news, the baht on twitter, people talk about russian meddling in the american election, it is all happening on twitter and facebook, but what is earning reports at showing is that actually yes, they are focusing on security and they are weeding out some of those bad actors and now they are kind of showing the fundamentals of their business, this isa fundamentals of their business, this is a business that can make money, almost $1 billion injust is a business that can make money, almost $1 billion in just three months. fears are growing that there won't be a deal in time to head off an escalation in the us china trade war. let's go to our asia business hub, where rico hizon is following the story. hire, how are you doing?” hire, how are you doing? i am good, thanks. good. did you enjoy your week? yes, very, very good. things have soured between the us and china, it looks like. hopes had been quite h

paul and bull hank and it's it's it's i was going to twitter it's on twitter its tender tender tender and older and you've got taller. than the guys need to get another try hope to match the breeds and long hours. i am i suppose that the the the the the easy serve at gag is people do ♪ amy: from pacifica, this is dedemocracy now! >> our students are the ones who suffer the most when educators cannot afford to stay in the classroom. amy: teaches in denver have launched their first strike in 25 years after negotiations for higher pay broke down. we will get the latest, then go to the campus of wright state university in ohio, where faculty members have just

number off a monthly active users those figures dropped for the third consecutive quarter and now twitter decided in the future to not actually publish those monthly numbers anymore but rather they will publish a daily numbers daily active users but there's no real comparison to those figures yet so that means less transparency and that was another reason why there was this negative reaction on wall street in quarter there for us in new york thank you hans . and now another american tech giant google warning easy legislators not to stifle europe's online creativity the european parliament is due to publish its new copyright directive which is likely to have major implications for online platforms google which owns you tube says the draft legislation is not carefully balanced and would harm the video sharing sites creator community the bank of england has slashed its forecast for u.k. growth this year fleming brags that its downgraded growth projections from one point seven percent to one point two percent predicting the worst performance since the recent financial crisis the banks governo

we blame twitter but twitter is the wall that the media throw stuff at. if it sticks coming make a lot of money or use it to build the reputations of some left-wing hacks. this lawsuit means that in the future some dope can't break to the pulitzer committee that he broke the covington story. remember the clarence thomas hearings and how that turned many liberals like andrew

>> i don't think it is worse for twitter. that this is an example where expectations of us, analysts, going into this outlook for the year were elevated going into the call i any you take a step back and look at operating expenses are growing about 20% year over year for twitter, it is much lower than operating expense growth for facebook, for example. and so, you know, i don't think it's -- just think it's a little vers versus elevated expectations and the time spent on the platform is much less than for facebook and it is possible that it's more manageable for twitter and that once they kind of puts some new investments in place that they can get back to leveraging in the future. >> is this a case where they have to get used to a much lower multiple going forward running into the problems to reset expectations >> you asked about does it need to be sold, i disagree i think it's a viable, independent company. it has ebitda and free cash flow and earnings and not a need to raise capital and i wouldn't look to that i think ther

a prime example of the power of twitter certainly when the u.s. president takes to it canada was in frankfurt joins me now another tweet by donald trump however sent all oil prices south today how serious serious is it. well it's very likely less it's only going to be short term donald trump twittered down the oil price by saying that opec should relax and take it easy but you know this kind of short term reaction of asset prices has become much more common with algorithms becoming much much more important for the markets you know if an important person with many tweets twitter followers with large media attention post something then it does trigger an immediate short reaction that doesn't mean that investors who are long term oriented would really pay attention to this most certainly asian investors were paying attention to that other tweet and asian markets reacted very enthusiastically to the upbeat news about u.s. china trade talks european markets somewhat more subdued twice that. you know the delay of the tariffs has not really the concerns

in the wake of the venezuelan crisis facebook and twitter launching another round of crackdowns on what they call foreign influence and misinformation campaigns deleting thousands of accounts he's been a coach should have has a story. facebook and twitter have announced a major cleanup targeting accounts and groups they suspect were engaged in so-called in the found take behavior and influencing public opinion in different countries and the social media platforms accounts they have removed mostly originated from russia iran and venezuela and here is how facebook described its crackdown on allegedly militias and accounts to do it we removed multiple just groups and accounts. into behavior and facebook and instagram this is due to was directed from iran in some cases report recently renewed state media content well as you just heard reporting articles to by iranian state media is now apparently reason enough to suspend an account the accounts focused on issues like israel palestine conflict the situation in syria and yemen they were also airing proper listing interviews and reporting on t

a woman is suing twitter for allegedly violating her freedom of speech. or tweets directed at transgender people saying men and women. and some experimental russian film tops the stalinist truman show spots controversy eradication supplies and some sat. there watching aussie international welcome to the program the top story paris has conducted as strikes in the central african country of chad and the bed two of that's a coup de tat there in that attack helps the child in army captured two hundred fifty five but it's france's support of the current leadership in chad to strong criticism as a way of petrenko explains. just to the south of the in between countries like nigeria and sudan there's a rare patch of relative stability called chad well it's just been bombed by france and you know what it's become even more stable after that because you've gone president deby asked us in writing to intervene to prevent a coup d'etat and protect his country. so they saved the government from the rebels the militants on dozens of pickup trucks had crossed over from l

last year we had the allegations with twitter when our project veritas released undercover first to have twitter employees stuff a parent to admit to silencing conservatives they were saying how they used the algorithms to bury particular tweet he said just interviewing the worst of them were exactly so use as one seeing what these are particular people were posting because they were being buried by these algorithms at twitter at the time denied any complicity in the actions of its stuff but the most worrying thing here is that it exposes this impression that these social media giants like facebook and twitter that so many of us use pretty much on a daily basis could have political leaning or not has twenty reus implications for me years ago he wouldn't be not important because it didn't have so much important allies or young people there's millions of people becoming voters sixteen eighteen year olds and they put a lot into social media so this is why it's becoming a huge issue and it's we're not going to hear the end of this for some time indeed the power of social media. and i'll be b