However, Wedbush analyst Michael Pachter said Twitter needed to increase revenue by between $200m and $300m a quarter to become profitable next year.
"The building blocks for revenue are increasing the number of users - and Twitter is not doing a particularly good job of that," he said.
Advertising revenue rose 6% to $545m in the quarter, while data licensing and other revenue jumped 26% to $71m.
International revenue soared by more than a fifth to $242m, growing more than in the US, where revenue was largely flat at $374m compared with the same period last year,
Twitter shares, which have fallen by a quarter this year, rose 1.3% to $17.52 in New York.
The company had 3,860 employees as of June.