Twitter's Fraud Investigation

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Twitter was allowing bots all over the system and they were counting daily active users or monthly active users that people considered questionable. So you had this like steady stream of millions of accounts being created that were lightly used, but keeping up this fraud. And it does feel like there was fraud at Twitter as well.

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Today’s show:

Jason is joined by Vinny Lingham to break down IRL shutting down after faking 95% of users (1:12), ZIRP fraud (12:59), Databricks acquiring MosaicML for $1.3B, and some AI demos! (1:02:31)

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(0:00) Vinny joins Jason

(1:12) IRL's 19M fake users

(5:45) Twitter bots and the fake account problem

(11:50) Notion - Try it for free today at https://notion.com/twist

(12:59) Diligence in early-stage startups

(20:59) Databricks acquires MosaicML for $1.3B

(27:02) LinkedIn Jobs - Post your first job for free at ⁠https://linkedin.com/twist

(33:09) Testing Google’s new generative search

(37:47) Fin - Try Fin, Intercom's new AI customer support chatbot, at ⁠https://intercom.com/fin⁠