Takeaway: Data licenses appear to be meta-analysis tools for public tweets. We doubt TWTR is releasing Personally identifiable information.

Data Licensing and Other - Segment description (10-k)


"We generate data licensing and other revenue by (i) offering data products and data licenses that allow our data partners to access, search and analyze historical and real-time data on our platform, which data consists of public Tweets and their content, and (ii) providing mobile advertising exchange services through our MoPub exchange. Our data partners generally purchase licenses to access all or a portion of our data for a fixed period. We recognize data licensing revenue as the licensed data is made available to our data partners. In addition, we operate a mobile ad exchange and receive service fees from transactions completed on the exchange. Our mobile ad exchange enables buyers and sellers to purchase and sell advertising inventory and matches buyers and sellers. We have determined we are not the principal in the purchase and sale of advertising inventory in transactions between third-party buyers and sellers on the exchange. Therefore we report revenue related to our ad exchange services on a net basis".

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See the deck above for supporting detail on our Long thesis.  Let us know if you have any questions or would like to discuss in more detail.

Hesham Shaaban, CFA
Managing Director


@HedgeyeInternet