Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
by redeeman on Friday July 08, 2022 @08:02PM
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are you saying it is 100% impossible that there really is way more than 5% of daily active users being bots? unless you have some information here, it seems like a fairly big claim to make? if elon musk thinks 20% is bots, that is a very different thing than <=5%, would you not agree?
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
by pclmulqdq on Friday July 08, 2022 @09:48PM
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Everyone talking about this claim drops the important word. Less than 5% of _monetizable_ daily active users are bots. A non-monetizable user can exist and many do: people with ad blockers, people using third party Twitter clients, and people using APIs to interact with Twitter. Bot accounts are very likely to not be counted as monetizable daily active uers.
Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement
by redeeman on Saturday July 09, 2022 @09:55AM
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wouldnt a bot user by definition not be monetizable? I dont think this is what it is about at all, it makes no sense? They public a count of daily active users, this includes bots. The amount of those daily active users is very important