The people who sign up for Twitter, dork around for a little while, and then leave and never return are not counted among the monetizable daily active users.
Botometer's test claims to use over 1000 individual features in its analysis and it is unknown (to me, please clarify if you know) if they use Twitter's exact definition of monetizable daily active users in their system.
What botometer does or does not do is completely irrelevant to twitter’s mDAU calculation.
No matter how many thousands of individual features botometer has, it cannot (and will never be able to) tell whether Twitter has served ads to that user today.
> What botometer does or does not do is completely irrelevant to twitter’s mDAU calculation.
Agreed, but this article was about the tool Musk used and that's what my comment was directed towards.
> No matter how many thousands of individual features botometer has, it cannot (and will never be able to) tell whether Twitter has served ads to that user today.
That seems likely, but I don't think that really means much given that Twitter's interest lays in serving as many ads as they can get away with.
