Twitter reported higher revenue growth, as the social media platform rolled out ad targeting improvements to help brands reach potential customers.

Twitter has raced to introduce products in new areas like audio-only chat rooms and newsletter publishing in an effort to turn around years of business stagnation and reach its goal of doubling annual revenue by 2023.

Advertising revenue totalled $1.05 billion (roughly Rs. 7,820 crores), up 87 percent from the year-ago quarter, and beat Wall Street estimates of $909.9 million (roughly Rs. 6,780 crores).

Twitter has worked to improve the effectiveness of its advertisements, introducing 2,500 new topic categories during the quarter to help users find content they're interested in, all of which provides more ad targeting data back to Twitter, the company said on a conference call with analysts.

"We get great signal about what people are most interested in, where they are or the places they care about," said Twitter Chief Financial Officer Ned Segal during the call.

Those improvements, along with higher demand from advertisers seeking to reach consumers as countries reopen from pandemic restrictions, helped propel ad revenue, Twitter said.

Twitter reported 206 million monetisable daily active users (mDAU), its term for users who are served advertising, for the second quarter ended June 30, matching analyst targets of 205.9 million users, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.

Its US user base declined by 1 million over three months from the previous quarter due to a lighter news cycle in the United States, Twitter said, with total users worldwide in line with Wall Street targets.

The San Francisco-based company now expects headcount and total costs and expenses to grow at least 30 percent for the full year, up from its previous guidance of 25 percent, as it invests in its engineering and product teams.