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Twitter Shares Tumble After Poor Economic Reports

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People the world over have been getting their news on the upcoming Olympics through tweets. But this doesn’t translate into business success for Twitter. Recent reports of slow user growth sent Twitter shares tumbling some 20 percent in early trading today.

From the studios of NPR in New York, The Atlantic’s business editor Derek Thompson discusses Twitter’s surprise economic woes with Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson.

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This segment aired on February 6, 2014.

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