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Twitter posted total worldwide revenue of more than US$5 billion in 2021.
It is estimated that by 2023, the number of monthly users will reach figures of over 340 million.
Elon Musk agreed to pay $44 billion for the site in April, an act that is now in dispute.
The discord between Elon Musk and Twitter is still very strong. This Thursday it was announced that the legal team of Elon Musk demands that Twitter hand over the names of the employees responsible for calculating what percentage of the social networking site’s users are Twitter accounts. bots and spam.
The problem of accounts bot It is very recurrent in social networks. These accounts are created through a software that develops functions automatically and seeks to resemble human behavior, that is, it is a technology that replaces a person with repetitive actions.
Let us remember that Twitter ensures that bot and fake accounts on its platform account for less than 5 percent of its total users, but the Twitter audit tool, SparkBull, he says this figure could rise to nearly 20 percent.
According to a study by SparkToro, 19.42 percent of these accounts are bot or false, which is nearly four times Twitter’s Q4 2021 estimate. Also, according to the parameters of the investigation, 70.23 percent of the total followers of @ElonMusk could be bot or fake accounts.
Elon Musk seeks to question Twitter employees
This Thursday it was announced that Elon Musk’s legal team is demanding that Twitter hand over the names of the employees responsible for calculating what percentage of the social networking site’s users are Twitter accounts. bot Y spamaccording to a source familiar with the matter.
Twitter bot and spam accounts have become a central issue in the legal fight over whether Musk should complete his $44 billion acquisition of the company.
Recall that Musk said last month that he will terminate the deal because Twitter had withheld information about these accounts. So Twitter sued Musk to complete the purchase and has said the issue has nothing to do with the deal with the Tesla CEO, so A trial is scheduled for October 17 in Delaware, United States.
Also, in a letter sealed Tuesday, Musk’s lawyers asked the judge overseeing the case to force Twitter to hand over the names of the employees so the defense team can question them.
For its part, the Bloomberg media reported for the first time on the request of Musk’s lawyers. Last week it was confirmed that the Tesla CEO’s attempt to reveal the content of the countersuit he filed against Twitter was rejected by the judge overseeing the case.
In that sense, this new action gives another perspective to this event that I consider important for many industries, especially technology and it seems that more information will emerge every day.
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