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Twitter even admitted to overcounting its users: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/28/twitter-says-it-overcounte...

By 1%, and they corrected it?

This whole article and their filings avoid using percentages, specifically because it’s misleading at their size. Absolute numbers make more sense.

Regardless, “this is not the first time Twitter reported erroneous metrics around users” is the problem with them.

Why you think absolute number make more sense ?

Well, even by percentage, 1 in 100 users at their scale is massive.

More context: https://dataschool.com/misrepresenting-data/relative-vs-abso...

The article says to use both - not a preference for using absolute numbers at large scales.

Are you just being pedantic, or do you have a point? I’ve stated my stance.

Your stance is that 1% is a large amount, people don't understand why you think this is a large amount other than 1% of large numbers happen to be large figures.

Doesn’t matter, courts won’t rule that a materially adverse effect

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