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<b><i>Online Extra</b></i><br>Twitter Faces Surge of Securities Suits

By Ben Hancock
December 02, 2016

Twitter Inc. is gaining a lot of followers it probably doesn't want.

Last month, the company was hit with the latest in a string of lawsuits alleging that the social media company misled investors about the growth of its user base, and that senior executives raked in hundreds of millions of dollars by selling their stock before the market learned about it.

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