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The obvious answer why Twitter hasn’t banned bots is to help keep their DAU metrics up

Bingo. Just the other day I saw someone arguing with bob8374922 in a very long thread. When I clicked on bobs profile he had zero followers and account was created this year, no tweets that weren’t replied to others arguing insane “I’m a critical thinker!” Positions.

A very common theme.

I myself had a full conversation with one of the bots that appears if you say "Metamask" before I realized that @meta2mask was not really a helpful support person from the internet, and was actually a scammer trying to get crypto seeds.

So is this a bot or a brand new user who decided to spill his frustration about society online and accepted the default username suggestion that Twitter offered him?

In an efficient market public investors would demand to know the true/accurate DAU metrics with bots removed.

Only if the benefit of actually knowing outweighed the effort of finding out.

Twitter is a mature business. Revenue is driven by ad rates. Ad rates are driven by big buyers who know how effective their buys are — regardless of bots and whatever stats Twitter gives them or us. Therefore, investors have little reason to care about bots.

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