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Proclamations of Twitter's stumble towards oblivion poured out this week after the employee stock lockup expired on Tuesday. The market reacted with a 12% dip in the stock's price. This could be signaling a lack of confidence from inside the company, or it could be the natural ebb and flow of employees cashing in on their options, which accounted for a stunning 82% of outstanding shares. But for many it was yet another stop on Twitter's downward trajectory. But despite anemic user growth, ad sales are up 119% this year, bringing in $250 million in revenue, and growing much quicker than most anticipated. Twitter's growth has been plateauing lately, leaving many to wonder if users are starting to move elsewhere. The platform currently has about 255 million active users worldwide. For perspective, Twitter is trailing behind the wildly popular WhatsApp's 500 million active users and Facebook's 1 billion active users. In the U.S. more adults use Pinterest than Twitter. We discuss Twitter's health with special guests Shel Israel, who writes The Contextual Beat for Forbes, and was an early adopter to Twitter and author of Twitterville, Jeff Bercovici from Forbes who extensively covers Twitter hullabaloo, and Twitter power user Felix Salmon from Fusion.