Friday, October 27, 2017

Twitter Overstated User Numbers For Over Three Years

This is my shocked face...😏.

The social media network said it overstated its number of monthly users since 2014, blaming third-party applications that sent authentication messages via texts through Twitter's systems, but which weren't related to activity on its platform. The company restated the number of monthly active users for three quarters, shaving them by between 1 million to 2 million users.