Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight

Re:Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight by justanotherhn on Thursday April 28, 2022 @11:05AM (#31193353)

Outing your identity to whom? You must know that Twitter already knows about your alt accounts right? I wouldn't panic just yet, they will probably just derank unverified users in the replies of tweets so spam bots can finally die.

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Re:Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight by addingnumbers on Thursday April 28, 2022 @11:27AM (#31193684)

> You must know that Twitter already knows about your alt accounts right?

As the article says, the whole miscalculation comes from Twitter counting all your alts as active even when you were only using one of them...

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Re:Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight by postalrat on Thursday April 28, 2022 @11:42AM (#31193918)

Sure, just a "miscalculation". They would never want to mislead people into thinking they have more users.

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Re:Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight by _moof on Thursday April 28, 2022 @11:24AM (#31193647)

> Outing your identity to whom? You must know that Twitter already knows about your alt accounts right?

They aren't concerned about Twitter, Inc. knowing. They don't want other people on Twitter knowing.

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Re:Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight by maxlybbert on Thursday April 28, 2022 @02:23PM (#31196233)

But verifying users doesn’t require publishing their names on their profile page.

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