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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by postmeta on Saturday July 09, 2022 @03:49AM (#32032886)
Twitter even admitted to overcounting its users: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/28/twitter-says-it-overcounte...
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by bagels on Saturday July 09, 2022 @03:59AM (#32032939)
By 1%, and they corrected it?
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by yunohn on Saturday July 09, 2022 @04:17AM (#32033044)
This whole article and their filings avoid using percentages, specifically because it’s misleading at their size. Absolute numbers make more sense.

Regardless, “this is not the first time Twitter reported erroneous metrics around users” is the problem with them.

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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by Rexxar on Saturday July 09, 2022 @04:29AM (#32033098)
Why you think absolute number make more sense ?
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by yunohn on Saturday July 09, 2022 @04:57AM (#32033218)
Well, even by percentage, 1 in 100 users at their scale is massive.

More context: https://dataschool.com/misrepresenting-data/relative-vs-abso...

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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by verbify on Saturday July 09, 2022 @05:56AM (#32033487)
The article says to use both - not a preference for using absolute numbers at large scales.
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by yunohn on Saturday July 09, 2022 @06:26AM (#32033640)
Are you just being pedantic, or do you have a point? I’ve stated my stance.
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by azemetre on Saturday July 09, 2022 @12:08PM (#32036439)
Your stance is that 1% is a large amount, people don't understand why you think this is a large amount other than 1% of large numbers happen to be large figures.
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Re:Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement by colinmhayes on Saturday July 09, 2022 @09:55AM (#32035109)
Doesn’t matter, courts won’t rule that a materially adverse effect
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