Twitter is trying to prove that Elon is looking for excuses to get out of the deal. They also issued subpoenas to all the banks to see if he is trying to sabotage the financing.Elon's acquaintances getting drawn into the drama
Elon Musk's tech allies miffed about Twitter subpoenas
Elon Musk’s wealthy high tech allies don’t seem too happy about receiving subpoenas from Twitter as part of the company’s legal battle with the Tesla CEO. San Francisco-based Twitter is suing Musk in Delaware in an attempt to get him to complete his $44 billion acquisition of the social media...www.yahoo.com
Just checked my own score on botometer. 4.8 out of 5! though it did say ”not active, score might be innacurate.” Still it is possible I could be a replicant and not know it…“Confirming the unreliability of Musk’s conclusion, he relies on an internet application called the “Botometer”—which applies different standards than Twitter does and which earlier this year designated Musk himself as highly likely to be a bot.”
Twitter claims they use a random sample of mDAUs (this is literally the only correct way to do it) and they use human judgement to figure out if they're spam accounts. This Andrea Stroppa person doesn't seem to understand statistics, 3000 accounts a month is plenty.
The trial will be public. On the other hand internet polls are the only real way to know the truth.
www.statista.com
I guess I should have qualified the statement better:X/Twitter global mDAU 2022 | Statista
In the second quarter of 2022, the number of global monetizable daily active users (mDAU) on Twitter amounted to just under 240 million users.
As long as Twitter self-reports AND self-audits its use statistics, they mean very little. Let's hope that the court allows enough latitude to allow an independent audit of Twitter's numbers. I tend to doubt that will happen, though.
Technically the 10-K filings are audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers. The same auditor used by Tesla. It's odd that Elon is still using them...
The key difference is, that Twitter first applies their algorithmic filter to eliminate bots/spam/fake accounts. What remains after the automated filtering process is what they call mDAU. Then they sample random 100 of those daily and apply manual human verification and claim <5% of those are bot, i.e. that's the error rate of their filtering algo.
Elon wants us to think that every tweet is from an mDAU, and that obviously more that 5% of those are bots. By in reality, if it’s obviously a bot, it has probably already been excluded from mDAU by Twiitter’s fancy algorithms.
