Friday, 24 March, 2023

Twitter miscounted its daily users for three years straight

<p>For three years, Twitter has overstated the number of daily users on its site, overcounting by up to 1.9M users per quarter. The error was due to Twitter incorrectly counting various accounts as active when they were all tied to a single user, even if they weren&rsquo;t all in use. Twitter also discovered in 2017 that it had been overstating its user numbers by around 1M to 2M users for three years. The reoccurring error was discovered today in Twitter&#39;s Q1 2022 earnings announcement.</p>