Twitter adds 5 million users, tops sales estimates

Twitter reported sales that beat Wall Street expectations as the social media company attracted millions of new users with better ways of sorting users’ feeds and more relevant notifications. The shares rose 8.7 percent.Second-quarter revenue came in at $841 million, up 18 percent from the same quarter last year and higher than the $829 million analysts estimated. The company added 5 million daily users in the period, bringing the total to 139 million. That was the biggest year-over-y