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by x1ph0z 1079 days ago
| Elon reported that Twitter hit a new all time high of "user seconds" last week

I’m not inclined to take Elon’s words at face value, he has an incentive to pump any statistic that makes it seem Twitter is growing.

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That's pretty much majority of data science at tech companies. Stakeholders want numbers that make things look good, not accurate or useful numbers.