Their revenue exceeds 1bn per year so...yeah. They are a billion dollar company.
If I were to make a bunch of goods for $130/each, and then sell them for $100/each but managed to sell 10M of those goods should I be valued as a billion dollar company?
If operated and ran efficiently it has the reach and potential to produce billion dollar profits. I highly doubt we'll ever see a twitter like that though. They're too far entrenched in the culture of frivolous spending and Silicon Valley economics.
1. http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/06/technology/social/twitter-ca...
2. http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/04/28/us-twitter-results-...