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Why does it have to be that complicated? Twitter says only 5% of its active users are bots. Anyone who has paid attention to say Joe Bidens follower count[1]
by DarkmSparks 4y ago
Why does it have to be that complicated?
Twitter says only 5% of its active users are bots.
Anyone who has paid attention to say Joe Bidens follower count[1] would put it closer to 50%
[1] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10829675/Almost-half-President-Bidens-Twitter-followers-FAKE-audit-reveals.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10829675/Almost-hal...
Bloomberg says there is no evidence of this... yeah, personally I dont really see any evidence of twitter having more than 200 or 300 million real users, and only a small fraction of those will be active. "Maybe" if they werent completely blocked in China and Russia it would be possible to believe there is more.
- philipwhiuk 4y agoThe problem is that Twitter distinguishes 'automated account' from 'mininimum wage-farm account'. The later are not bots even though they are not genuine engagement.
- DarkmSparks 4y agoSurely the problem is the believability of twitter claiming they have about 50% the number of active users as instagram (250million vs 500million). When a cursory glance of twitter accounts shows its only a small number of American celebrities and a few global politicians that still use twitter instead of telegram. The onus is on twitter to prove that 250million number, and Musks lawyers are saying they fell well short of doing so. A bloomberg hit piece on Musk claiming Musk didnt show it isnt true wont save twitter, and they've been in terminal decline even before they banned Trump.
- FabHK 4y agoSo? That doesn't absolve Musk from his obligation to buy Twitter, as agreed in the merger agreement.