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are we at a turning point for Twitter and is HBO now growing too slowly I'm just akahlar filling in for Bridget Carey this is your cnet update after what was mostly a stagnant earnings report released yesterday twitter is having major issues convincing Wall Street it's the real deal most discouraging Twitter can't grow its user base that number has not moved since last quarter for hot Manju of the New York Times writes that Twitter needs to reconsider what kind of company it is maybe it's not the blockbuster Silicon Valley powerhouse that Wall Street wants it to be but perhaps it's not meant to emulate the googles and Facebook's of the world instead Twitter is more like a public utility a news wire a transcription of the world manju doesn't say Twitter can't make money but maybe normalizing expectations is the first step in bringing the still great service back down to earth HBO now the ala carte fifteen dollar a month streaming service has seen a slower-than-expected adoption rate it's been a little less than a year since the platform debuted and analysts had projected subscriptions to be close to the two million dollar mark but in reality about 800,000 people have signed up for the service but on the flipside 800,000 signups is nothing to scoff at HBO CEO Richard plepler says the numbers remind us that HBO now was only available on Apple TV for its first three months remember that also HBO now isn't really available on as many devices as you may think especially game consoles it's yet to hit the ps4 or Xbox one which actually make up twenty percent of HBO goes audience an HBO still has tons of new content coming through this year including shows from Jon Stewart Bill Simmons and a daily news program from vice and finally comcast is trying to preemptively warn potential Google Fiber customers in Atlanta to quote not fall for the hype and a flyer posted by a Reddit user contest is trying to compare their internet service with Google's but as some reddit users pointed out a lot of these bullet points come with significant caveats for example Comcast's festus home Wi-Fi claim leaves out the fact that anyone can simply buy a faster router and pair it with their Google Fiber service now Google Fiber offers gigabit internet at seventy dollars a month where Comcast's to gigabits per second service goes for three hundred dollars a month with a thousand dollars in startup fees so yeah I'd be passing out flyers to that's going to do it for this tech news update everything else you need is over at cnet com from our Studios here in New York I'm Jeff Bakalar