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Dorsey, who stepped in as interim CEO on July 1, has been candid
about the problems faced by the microblogging website .
User growth in the second quarter increased at the slowest pace
since the company went public in 2013.
"Investing in @twitter's future," Dorsey tweeted on Monday,
after disclosing he had bought 31,627 shares, worth about
$875,000 at $27.67 per share.
Dorsey now owns about 21.9 million shares, or about 3 percent of
Twitter.
Twitter's shares closed up 9 percent at $29.50 on Monday. The
stock fell to a record low of $27.82 on Aug. 7 - just shy of the
IPO price of $26.
Separately, director Peter Currie disclosed he had bought and
9,200 shares worth about $249,000 at $27.03.
CFO Anthony Noto and another director, Peter Fenton, disclosed
share purchases in the company last week.
Trading in Twitter's options contracts was busier than usual on
Monday, with much of the trading biased towards calls, usually
used for bullish bets on the shares.
Trading in calls outnumbered puts by a ratio of 2.6-to-1, the
highest the ratio has been since June 23, according to Trade
Alert data. Calls betting on the shares closing above $30 and
$29 by Friday were particularly busy.
Overall options volume was at 211,000 contracts, compared with
average daily volume of 179,000 contracts.
Twitter also clinched a multiyear partnership on Monday with the
National Football League to deliver video and other content to
NFL fans on a daily basis.
(Reporting by Devika Krishna Kumar in Bengaluru and Saqib Ahmed
in New York; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)
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