Elon Musk isn’t happy about Twitter’s user numbers
“Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” Musk tweeted.
Below is the relevant section of Twitter’s filing. It notes that its calculations about the number of false or spam accounts are an “estimate,” and that the real number “could be higher than we have estimated”: Twitter has had problems with math in the past. A few weeks ago it said in an earnings report that it hadfor three years straight. The company said a technical error had lead to it counting multiple accounts as active, despite them being tied to a single user, and that this had lead to it miscounting its user numbers by as much as 1.9 million each quarter.
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