There’s a wonky number at the core of Elon Musk’s case against Twitter
by Elizabeth Lopatto from The Verge - All Posts on (#62W49)
Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Listening to the lawyers representing Elon Musk and Twitter argue over which documents need to be provided as part of legal discovery today, I began to wonder if it is possible to measure anything at all.
The arguments centered on a wonky count of user numbers: mDAUs, or monetizable daily active users." It's a nonstandard measure - most social media companies use daily or monthly active users - that focuses on which users can see ads. But Twitter is a nonstandard social media company!
We are allowed to question their process."
Twitter is suing Musk for abandoning a deal to buy the company for $44 billion. Part of Musk's argument is that he was misled about the amount of spam and bots on the platform and that, therefore, the deal can't...