1. Monetisable daily active users likely excludes users twitter excludes as bots - possibly users visiting from automated browsers, minor browsers, cloud IPs etc. To protect against ad fraud you have to do that.
2. Musk likely cares about all users that keep spamming his feed and others. The platform currently feels like armies of bots from political and ad/marketing agencies and some active users who think someone is reading their content. If one correlates the number of followers they have (especially if you’ve had twitter for a long time) vs number of reads on each of your recent tweets, the % is very low.
3. A firehouse of all tweets coming out may show a lot of bot activity (accounts with more numbers than letters in the username commenting in reply to popular accounts with a lot of followers) but they are not near the number active users who are just reading and that is where Musk’s claim and Twitter’s defensively worded SEC statements pass each-other like ships in the night.
The arms race of coding interviews legitimately keeps some of the best most experienced candidates out of the candidate pool, replacing them with newbies who have time to make cheat sheets with every new type of leer code question, and maybe that’s the goal. When question lookup, exchange, cheating etc happens, it makes interviewers pick and design increasingly harder questions over time. That makes it impossible to pass interviews without months of prep memorizing/practicing the majority of latest questions, or cheating. What you lose are ethical candidates, or those with better things to do on their hands. That may be a feature and not a bug - you are left with those who will do the grind and do whatever it takes, until burning out in their own turn. After all the most intense hiring competition happens right out of college - capturing the developers with little experience, a lot of energy, and complete nativité on burnout. The companies that cause the most burnout, are the most intense competitors in that space too.
That’s exactly the point of the interviews. Companies are looking for some combination of dedicated enough to grind endless problems, moderately high IQ, not “old”, willing to sacrifice for the company, etc. On top of this, managers are often looking for cultural similarity, same educational backgrounds, and more.
If you want a company to have to take on and train engineers, well, that ship sailed in the 90s.
