Twitter's cleanup efforts resulted in its biggest drop ever in monthly users

Twitter's efforts to clean up its platform may be working, but it's also resulted in the loss of millions of users.
The service lost 9 million monthly active users during the third quarter of 2018, Twitter revealed during its third-quarter earnings call. The drop is the largest ever decline for the company, which also lost 1 million users last quarter. 
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That may sound like bad news for Twitter, which has long fac