Twitter shares have shut down over 20% after the messaging platform revealed a fall in dynamic users.

Client numbers tumbled to 335 million in the second quarter of the year, down one million from the past three months.

Amid the quarter Twitter erased numerous phony accounts – a move that CEO Jack Dorsey said was reflected in the outcomes.

The slide to just shy of $35 a share came regardless of Twitter detailing record quarterly benefits.

It posted a benefit of $100m, denoting Twitter’s third back to back quarter in benefits, with sales up 24% to a better-than-expected $711m.

Under pressure

“Our second-quarter results reflect the work we’re doing to ensure more people get value from Twitter every day,” Mr Dorsey said.

“We want people to feel safe freely expressing themselves and have launched new tools to address problem behaviours that distort and distract from the public conversation.”

Tech firms have been feeling the squeeze in a few nations to be stricter over abusive content and fake news, or “phony news”, and additionally political impact and assurance of protection of individual information.

Mr Dorsey later told an investor call the organization had utilized machine learning apparatuses to distinguish and remove “bad conduct, not just bad content” from the online networking channel.

“We don’t think the work will ever be done. It doesn’t have an end point,” he said.

Twitter as of late suspended or removed various number of accounts, which the firm said was one explanation for the fall in dynamic users in the second quarter. The organization said it anticipated that client numbers would keep on falling in the third quarter.