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Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal detailed that the number of fake accounts is less than 5 percent.
Media reports that in the presentation on Monday, Musk said that he does not agree with the evaluation that Twitter made.
The Tesla CEO stressed that Twitter’s effort to characterize him in another way is simply an attempt to obfuscate and confuse.
The history of Elon Musk and Twitter is still in discord and recently the South African tycoon said that he believes that Twitter Inc. is breaching its merger agreement by failing to provide the information about spam and fake accounts that the billionaire has demanded.
According to data from Statista, in 2023, the number of monthly users of the social network could exceed 340 million, that is, 50 million more than those registered as of 2019.
Likewise, the statistics platform indicates that Twitter currently ranks as one of the leading social networks in the world according to active users.
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According to information published by Bloomberg in a modified securities presentation on Monday, June 6, Musk said he believes that the popular little blue bird’s social media company is “actively resisting and frustrating their information rights” by refusing to disclose data.
Let’s remember that last month I took this story’s denouement after Tesla CEO said he wouldn’t go ahead with his acquisition of Twitter for the great value of 44 billion dollars, unless the social media giant can prove that bots make up less than 5 percent of its users.
In response to Musk’s request, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal explained that the number of fake accounts is less than 5 percent when daily users are measured. Figure that the digital platform has previously cited in its quarterly reports shown to the public.
Likewise, the media report that in the presentation on Monday, Musk said that he does not agree with the evaluation that Twitter made.
“Twitter’s latest offer to simply provide additional details regarding the company’s own testing methodologies, whether through written materials or verbal explanations, is tantamount to rejecting Mr. Musk’s data requests.”they point out
Likewise, the South African tycoon considered one of the richest men in the world, stressed that “Twitter’s effort to characterize him in another way is simply an attempt to obfuscate and confuse the issue. Mr. Musk has made it clear that he does not believe the company’s lax testing methodologies are adequate, so he must conduct his own analysis. The data he has requested is necessary to do so.”
For his part, after Musk’s presentation, Agrawal would have said that “the team constantly updates their systems and rules to help eliminate as much spam as possible, without accidentally suspending real people or adding fiction to the user experience.”
On numerous other occasions, the digital platform has said that fake or spam accounts represented less than 5 percent of its monetizable daily active users in the last quarter.
“The estimate is based on multiple (replicating) human reviews of thousands of accounts, which are randomly sampled, consistently over time, from accounts we count as mDAUS,” adds Agrawal.
“There are many commercial services that claim to provide insights into bots and their online activity, and often their focus is entirely on Twitter due to the free data we provide through our public APIs. Unfortunately, this research is rarely peer-reviewed and often doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, further confusing the public’s understanding of what’s really going on.”
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