Posted on 08/24/2022 9:59:33 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
DETROIT (AP) — U.S. securities regulators are questioning Twitter about how it calculates the number of fake accounts on its platform.
The law firm Wilson Sonsini of Palo Alto, California, replied in a June 22 letter saying the company believes it adequately disclosed the methodology in its annual report filed for 2021.
The letter says that Twitter makes its estimates of false accounts with an internal review of sample accounts. The number of fake accounts “represent the average false or spam accounts in the samples during each monthly analysis period during a quarter,” the letter said.
It added that fewer than 5% of Twitter’s “Monetizable Daily Active Usage or Users,” or mDAU, were fake accounts in the fourth quarter of last year, the period that the SEC had questioned.
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This is the same Twitter that claims it has the righteous indignation to declare other people as “fake news”.
House of cards and empty suits. Twitter? Bah, humbug!
SEC reply: ok sounds good to us.
Making an appearance of investigating.
It should be able to analyze more than 5% of the traffic to see what is fake and what is real.
Just check out how any prominent conservative who tweets, especially Trump in the past, has their tweet absolutely flooded with crazy, taunting leftist replies within a millisecond of posting. It’s an obvious botnet-driven effort to crowd out any replies from normal people and to drive them away from conservative tweets.
What makes an account monetizable?
They’ve even claimed they can “dial down the amplitude (aka visibility and bot focus) of certain tweets and dial it up for others”. This an influence monster and it’s fake.
“Twitter makes its estimates of false accounts with an internal review of sample accounts...”
The real question is HOW does Twitter make its estimates? How does Twitter distinguish an active bot from a real account? That’s the million (or billion in this case) dollar question.
and they all have 0-1 followers
Probably.🙄
I hit Twitter on a fairly regular basis with an add blocking browser. I don’t have a logon with them. The only way they are going to make money from me is if they sell my browsing habits via an IP number. I change that periodically...
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