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April 28, 2022 04:50 pm
Original Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/04/28/1650255/twitter-admits-it-overstated-users-for-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
Twitter Admits It Overstated Users for Years
Twitter on Thursday reported mixed first-quarter earnings, missing Wall Street expectations on revenue but adding users. It also admitted to over-counting some monetizable daily active users between Q1 2019 and Q4 2021. From a report: Analysts were expecting the tech giant to post weak results, given that its board finalized a takeover deal with Elon Musk earlier this week. This could be Twitter's last earnings report as a publicly traded company. The company brought in $1.2 billion in revenue last quarter, just shy of analyst estimates. Other ad-supported tech giants also missed Q1 revenue expectations in response to macroeconomic headwinds impacting the ad market. Twitter also said it accidentally over-counted the number of monetizable daily active users because of a feature that allowed people to link multiple separate accounts together in order to conveniently switch between them. It counted those two separate accounts as two users for more than three years.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/22/04/28/1650255/twitter-admits-it-overstated-users-for-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
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