Now that Twitter is a publicly traded company, its time to add the business to our collection of quarterly earnings reports. So how did it do in the first go-round? Well, there are pros and cons: In what CEO Dick Costolo says was the strongest financial quarter to date, the company posted a small earnings of $45 million for the quarter and $75 million for the year, which doesnt take into account the $511 million loss attributed to stock-related expenses.