Shocking. 😂 Has anyone outside of tech looked at user logs for self-service registration on free websites? Do you know how many accounts “Bill Gates” from “Microsoft” has, for example, on nearly every platform? No telling how many people have duplicates or throwaways.
How many are Russian and Republican trolls?
Not as much as leftist trolls manufactured by Twitter itself
90% of Twitter users are bots talking to each other
Is Elon getting a discount or bailing out?
It's embarrassing but not that big a deal. Basically an uncaught edge case: if you have an alt you never use logged into the app and use your main daily, BOTH are counted as DAU. Overcount, but negligible percentage of the whole
Thanks for the explanation, but do you really think 1.9mil is negligible?
Given that the point of the metric is primarily for the market to see growth rate of the platforms reach, i think it is. It's under 1% and roughly constant. Given the impending purchase, i suppose we'll never know how the market would have reacted to the news but i suspect it wouldve been hard to distinguish in TWTR price from the normal volatility the stock always has