> They knew. They 100% knew exactly what they were doing and didn't want to correct it. ...they committed outright fraud for three years, all to boost their M

> They knew. They 100% knew exactly what they were doing and didn't want to correct it. ...they committed outright fraud for three years, all to boost their MAUs by less than 1%[0]? All without getting caught? Committing fraud of that scale and getting away with it for that long is actually pretty difficult. It's hard to imagine why a company that's already experiencing growth in every single quarter during this time period (except one) would take such a great risk, and still end up with numbers that are basically a rounding error away from the correct ones. Occam's razor: they discovered a mistake which had very little impact, and then they corrected it. [0] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-says-it-could-turn-first-ever-profit-shares-surge-idUSKBN1CV1JP https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-results/twitter-s...