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> No one is saying that 5% of Twitter's users is bots, except for when Musk is trying to put those words into Twitter's beak. "In its disclosures, Twitter clai
by hartator 4y ago
> No one is saying that 5% of Twitter's users is bots, except for when Musk is trying to put those words into Twitter's beak.
"In its disclosures, Twitter claims to have nearly 238 million
monetizable daily active users (“mDAU”) who participate on the platform, and tells
its investors that this userbase metric is a bellwether for its ability to generate revenue and the “best way to measure [Twitter’s] success . . . .”
I think they are talking about this number being significant less than 238 million.
"They show that in early July fully one-third of visible accounts may have been false or spam accounts—resulting in a conservative floor of at least twice as many false
or spam accounts as the 5% that Twitter discloses for the entire mDAU population."
They are talking about the same after bot removal 5%.
- vehementi 4y agoThat logic is nonsense, 3rd party observers have no way to know what twitter counts as a daily active user. They *could not possibly* make any such estimate.