Martin Beck says, “Twitter CEO Dick Costolo continued his state-of-the-Twitter-union-is-strong tour last night, sitting for a live-streamed Q&A interview at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference in San Francisco.

Costolo, who had been fending off some investor unrest about his leadership, has seemingly calmed the waters for now. Although the company’s issues with slow growth and user retention continued in the fourth quarter of 2014, the combination of higher than expected revenue ($479 million in the quarter) and the future growth story Costolo and other executive have been telling seems to have soothed Wall Street for now.Twitter stock is up more than 15% since it reported earnings last week.

Costolo continued to tell an upbeat story during a 40-minute conversation with Goldman Sachs analyst Heath Terry. As he said in the earnings call last week, Costolo expects Twitter’s growth in monthly active users — which was only 4 million in the fourth quarter — to pick up this quarter and recover to its historical average of about 14 million”.

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