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Re:Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates by userbinator on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:24AM (#30297373)
but don’t want you to bounce right at registration.

Instead, they end up filling their database with countless unused accounts created by those who gave up?

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Re:Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates by pseudo0 on Friday February 11, 2022 @01:02AM (#30297629)
What are the odds that they still count those unused accounts towards that crucial user growth metric?
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Re:Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates by ThalesX on Friday February 11, 2022 @05:14AM (#30299578)
Worked for a CEO that used to require his Customer Service to create new accounts whenever a user would request their account be deleted. You can imagine where the company ended up when the CEO's solution to people wanting to delete their accounts is to replace them with fake ones for the vanity metrics.
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Re:Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates by adrianN on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:43AM (#30297507)
Space in databases is essentially free.
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Re:Twitter misses ad revenue and user growth estimates by gaius_baltar on Friday February 11, 2022 @12:53AM (#30297579)
... and they can say to investors "we have N million accounts".
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