Twitter May Be Global, but Most of Its Revenue Isn't
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With more than three-quarters of Twitter's 218 million active users coming from outside the U.S., the social network truly is home to a "global conversation," as the San Francisco-based company wrote in its filing for an initial public offering. However, Twitter is having trouble making money from all the chatter happening around the world.
Twitter generated $53 million in international revenue last year, making up about 17 percent of its total revenue, according to the prospectus. Compare that with Facebook, which had international revenue last year of at least $2.5 billion, or about half of all its revenue.