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Also, Musk routinely knowingly confuses DAUs and normal users. Twitter claims 5% of daily active users are bots, but Musk complains about how many of his followers are bots, when clearly many of those wouldn’t be DAUs.

Twitter’s CEO has addressed this. Musk responded with a poop emoji: https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1526237578843672576?s=20&t...

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Not only that, but monetizable DAUs, which is basically an advertising metric consisting primarily of folks whose only actions on a given day might just be "checking my feed, liking a couple posts", and from which fake users are likely already removed without there being a strong reason to shut down their accounts. Whatever ad impressions those users get don't get billed to advertisers, and there's no strong motive to shutting them down if they haven't published anything contravening Twitter's policies...

> Twitter claims 5% of daily active users are bots

You also left out an important piece: 5% of their *monetizable* DAU. Not just DAU.

But you're right, Elon's been convincing the public that Twitter has made claims they never actually made.

I can't get to the end of that thread without the Signup nag taking over the whole window and obliterating the content. Tried half a dozen times. Finally got there via an Incognito window (though still don't see Musk's response).

So Twitter tagged my device with a cookie specifically meant to keep me from viewing users' content. How's that support their mission statement, "To give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly, without barriers"?

It's not in my interest, or that of their users. The only benefit is to their bottom line, and I'd argue tactics like that do more long term damage than good. Certainly doesn't make me want to sign up or log in.

Go choke on Elon's <shit emoji>, Twitter. /rant

Which only shows Musk is shit himself,

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