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[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 87 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'd argue that the initial sign up week people should not be classified as "daily active users" Lots of people will check something out when it launches, I'd only start measuring actual usage after a month or two.

[–] Helix@feddit.de 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But shareholders want big numbers.

[–] worfamerryman@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

I don’t know what your talking about 80% is pretty big.

[–] Schedar@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

exactly what I was thinking. That big starting number is misleading at best.

[–] StoicLime@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And 80 percent of over 100 million users is still 20-30m active users.

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're bad at math (or more likely bad at wording things properly), 80% of 100million is 80 million....

[–] StoicLime@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

The article says 80 percent of the users left. If you had more context, you would have got what I said.

[–] empireOfLove@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Really those "DAU" numbers should be rolling average numbers per month, because there's far too much user variability even week to week for any data to be reliable.