#decline directly

NEW YORK | More with less? Twitter user numbers fall but profit soars

NEW YORK  — Twitter is doing more with less, at least when it comes to making money from a declining user base.

The company is purging and blocking the creation of maliciousaccounts and spam, including those set up to try to influence U.S. and other elections. Twitter averaged 326 million monthly users in the third quarter, 2 percent fewer than the previous quarter. It was Twitter’s first…