<story><title>Twitter admits it overstated users for years ahead of Elon Musk takeover</title><url>https://www.axios.com/twitter-overstated-users-elon-musk-deal-f7cecef1-b156-4998-91ff-37f6f56c82e0.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tristanj</author><text>I looked at the actual data and concluded this is a non-story. Twitter overstated users by &amp;lt;1% each quarter the past 2 years. That is not an egregious accounting error. This happened because they double counted users who used linked accounts.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;twitter-announces-first-quarter-2022-120000391.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;finance.yahoo.com&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;twitter-announces-first-quart...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter admits it overstated users for years ahead of Elon Musk takeover</title><url>https://www.axios.com/twitter-overstated-users-elon-musk-deal-f7cecef1-b156-4998-91ff-37f6f56c82e0.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>djyaz1200</author><text>Twitter needs to get smaller to get better, specifically they need only real people (no bots).  While this usage misstatement is minor it points to a longstanding directional problem whereby they focused too much on vanity metrics.  I&amp;#x27;d argue this a reason why they didn&amp;#x27;t do a better job challenged all the fake&amp;#x2F;bot accounts because those are great at pumping up vanity metrics.</text></comment>