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by rybosworld 1319 days ago
Because it’s exceptionally difficult, if not impossible, to obtain accurate bot account metrics without data that is exclusive to the company.

Factor in that Twitter did not have processes in place to accurately count the spam accounts themselves. The truth is that there is not currently an accurate count of Twitter’s fake users.

Page 8 of this whistleblower report goes into details: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22186683-twitter-whi...

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> Because it’s exceptionally difficult, if not impossible, to obtain accurate bot account metrics without data that is exclusive to the company.

Which is why the court ordered discovery that forced Twitter to give him that data.