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    Home»World»Twitter’s biggest asset: Donald Trump

    Twitter’s biggest asset: Donald Trump

    World By Agency Staff18 August 2017
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    Without Donald Trump, Twitter could lose almost a fifth of its value.

    That’s the conclusion of Monness Crespi Hardt & Co analyst James Cakmak, who said that the social media company would see as much as US$2bn in market value wiped out if @realDonaldTrump quit tweeting.

    It’s not that the president’s defection would touch off a mass exodus, lowering the number of “monetisable” daily active users, Cakmak said in an interview. Instead, losing its most prominent user would hit Twitter’s intangible value and lead to what’s known as multiple compression.

    “There is no better free advertising in the world than the president of the US,” said Cakmak, who has a neutral rating on Twitter shares.

    What’s most important is the execution of the right strategy, since at the present state we find Twitter not capitalising on the opportunity that’s in front of them

    While Twitter doesn’t disclose the total number, Cakmak estimates daily users are around 125m, about 30% fewer than Snap. Twitter said in July that daily active users rose 12% in the second quarter, compared to the same period in 2016.

    Trump has 36m followers and has tweeted more than 35 000 times since joining the social media service in 2009.

    Twitter’s business doesn’t face much risk from “potential diminishing political relevancy”, Cakmak said in a note published Thursday. “What’s most important is the execution of the right strategy, since at the present state we find Twitter not capitalising on the opportunity that’s in front of them.”

    Twitter shares have fallen 14% since Trump won the presidency in the 8 November election. The company’s market cap is about $11.7bn, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.  — Reported by Jeran Wittenstein, (c) 2017 Bloomberg LP

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