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Yes it is, because Twitter has no close analogues. There’s nothing to base an industry-wide standard on. All company figures involve some level of trust that t
by _djo_ 4y ago
Yes it is, because Twitter has no close analogues. There’s nothing to base an industry-wide standard on.
All company figures involve some level of trust that they’re based on correct processes as signed off by audit firms. For areas of material interest you’re supposed to do due diligence before signing final offers, but Musk explicitly waived that for some bizarre reason.
- loceng 4y agoIf you can't with 100% certainty determine the number of real users you have you shouldn't be putting out any number, and second to that, you have to be open to challenges that "your"/their analysis isn't reasonable; from what it sounds like, based on what Elon had said or alluded to, the way Twitter determined bot % was they had staff manually and "randomly" select literally just 100 accounts, and based on their own observations, decided if accounts were bots or not. If that's true, the obvious problem with that, is bots are designed to mimic to blend in and look like humans - to have the same or similar behaviour patterns to not be outside an expected range of behaviours. So, what might really be going on is: Twitter's able to detect that less than 5% of users are unsophisticated bots, but they're unable to determine how much of the remaining 95% are sophisticated bots that accurately enough mimic human behaviour; and so it's not possible to genuinely say "less than 5% are bots."
- _djo_ 4y agoYou have not done enough work to understand this issue before picking a side, and it shows. For one, this is not about what percentage of Twitter users are bots. Nor have you accurately or fairly described Twitter’s methodology for verifying their mDAU figures.