Takeaway from Rice University paper: @twitter is lying. By two orders of magnitude.
http://dl.acm.org/ft_gateway.cfm?id=2808147&ftid=1631399&dwn=1 …pic.twitter.com/kfmPPOFwp2
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@taoeffect @glynmoody With correct understanding of scope field, people found numbers that match Twitter reporting.https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19PY-T1Ve8uxNFT38OdA8iqb5ISnTk7Hi9CVLXIa3kBQ/edit …
@zeynep @glynmoody Best I can tell, that did not disprove anything from the paper linked above. It didn't even mention it.
@taoeffect @glynmoody It's doing the same calculation, finding the correct number. It was published before. Read the paper's section 3.5.
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