[skybrian]

In part this seems like a denominator issue. Many real Twitter users lurk, or post very seldom. Bots probably don’t lurk much - what would be the point?

If you took the likelihood of a tweet being spam, it’s going to be much higher than a user being spam, when “users” includes the lurkers you rarely see.

For the user experience, what you see is what matters and lurkers don’t count. But counting lurkers might matter more for ad impressions and revenue.

I wonder sometimes if Musk knows this stuff and enjoys playing dumb to troll people, or if he really is out of touch. Maybe focusing on the user experience is the right move regardless of how you get there?