> Twitter is a very well-scrutinized company with many analysts covering it and a lot of big institutional ownership You missed out the most important group: a

> Twitter is a very well-scrutinized company with many analysts covering it and a lot of big institutional ownership You missed out the most important group: advertisers. If Twitter has been wilfully lying for years about their metrics there would be thousands of lawsuits popping up from advertisers of all sizes. It would be the death of the company by paper cut.