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Here's what prompted this. Yesterday Elon saw a bunch of obvious bots[1] and asked "If Twitter can tell the difference between real and fake users, why does it
by memish 4y ago
Here's what prompted this. Yesterday Elon saw a bunch of obvious bots[1] and asked "If Twitter can tell the difference between real and fake users, why does it allow these in our comments?"
That's a good question. Anyone have a good answer?
1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1524909413462573058 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1524909413462573058
- yumraj 4y agoSo you're saying that Elon Musk made an offer to buy Twitter without knowing about the above issue I'll say that makes him look like an amateur ..
- scotuswroteus 4y agoI'm more interested in the slightly less snarky question of what led Elon to believe the number was <5%
- daenz 4y agoHow is he expected to know whether Twitter knows if their bot% number is accurate? You're suggesting he should know more than Twitter does about their internal data. And it's the internal data that is being disputed.
- bsder 4y agoTech is down and Elon now wants out. Musk knew the numbers and didn't care before everything started crashing. Bend over, Elon. Pony up the gigabuck and go home.
- memish 4y ago"Still committed to acquisition" https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525080945274998785 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525080945274998785 He probably wants to save $10bn on the price and stick it to the board that originally tried to block the deal with a poison pill.
- yupper32 4y agoIt's not really a good question, and I suspect he knows that. Twitter can simply: 1. Sample x twitter accounts 2. Have humans review the accounts manually to determine if they are bots. This isn't perfect but can be good enough. 3. Extrapolate. You'll come up with a reasonable percentage with this method to share with shareholders, but you can't use this method at scale to actually fix the issue.