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It probably counts as more active users and more ad views so I guess it's fine by them?

Facebook already established it's fine to fake audience data to advertisers.



Exactly. Twitter wants to increase active users and stats around posts and other interactions. Those are used to then drive sales of ads. Active users doesn't tie cleanly to the effectiveness of ads, but it looks like a nice top of line number.




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