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This whole article and their filings avoid using percentages, specifically because it’s misleading at their size. Absolute numbers make more sense. Regardless,

by yunohn 4y ago

This whole article and their filings avoid using percentages, specifically because it’s misleading at their size. Absolute numbers make more sense. Regardless, “this is not the first time Twitter reported erroneous metrics around users” is the problem with them.

Rexxar 4y ago
Why you think absolute number make more sense ?
- yunohn 4y ago
  Well, even by percentage, 1 in 100 users at their scale is massive. More context: https://dataschool.com/misrepresenting-data/relative-vs-absolute-change/ https://dataschool.com/misrepresenting-data/relative-vs-abso...
  - verbify 4y ago
    The article says to use both - not a preference for using absolute numbers at large scales.
    - yunohn 4y ago
      Are you just being pedantic, or do you have a point? I’ve stated my stance.
      - azemetre 4y ago
        Your stance is that 1% is a large amount, people don't understand why you think this is a large amount other than 1% of large numbers happen to be large figures.
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