Here's what prompted this. Yesterday Elon saw a bunch of obvious bots[1] and asked "If Twitter can tell the difference between real and fake users, why does it allow these in our comments?"
That's a good question. Anyone have a good answer?
That's a good question. Anyone have a good answer?
1. Sample x twitter accounts
2. Have humans review the accounts manually to determine if they are bots. This isn't perfect but can be good enough.
3. Extrapolate.
You'll come up with a reasonable percentage with this method to share with shareholders, but you can't use this method at scale to actually fix the issue.
Bend over, Elon. Pony up the gigabuck and go home.
He probably wants to save $10bn on the price and stick it to the board that originally tried to block the deal with a poison pill.
I'll say that makes him look like an amateur ..