Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

Friday, August 4th, we're running through some quarterly results from Apple and Twitter.

I'm your host, Dylan Lewis Lewis and I'm joined on Skype by

Fool.com senior tech specialist Evan New. Evan I know Twitter reported last

week and we're a little behind on the news here but I felt like we had to

revisit this one for listeners.

Yeah, I mean it's a pretty widely followed company, a lot of people are interested.

And in my opinion, it was just such a weird update in conference call.

You know, like you get some of the standard numbers

that you expect, but when we were digging through management's commentary on some of these

results, it was just so weird.

With some of the core metrics that you'd expect

and kind of their explanation for what's going on.

Looking at what was actually happening

with the business, the top line.

A revenue was actually pretty good.

Clocked in at 574 million,

which beat analysts expectations actually pretty comfortably.

Of course, that was still a decline from the 600 million

the company posted in the same quarter a year ago.

Some struggles with their ad business kind of leading to some of the issues there.

The company is still losing money, no real surprise there. Where things kind of start to get curious for me is what's going on with user growth.

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