- Twitter gave Musk the data on all users and the billions of daily tweets, but the tycoon’s team cannot know how many bot accounts the platform has.
- Musk is not going to buy Twitter if the social network has more than 5% fake accounts.
- If he withdraws the offer, Musk exposes himself to a years-long legal battle.
According to a report from Washington Post, Elon Musk’s deal to buy Twitter is in jeopardy due to the inability of the social network to obtain reliable figures regarding bot and spam accounts.
Elon Musk had bid $44 billion for Twitter, but later said he wouldn’t finalize the deal until he knew exactly how many fake Twitter accounts it had.
Twitter issued a related report on Thursday, July 7, even saying it was deleting more than a million accounts daily, but Musk’s developer team concluded that the numbers on spam accounts are unverifiable, related sources told him. the tycoon to the Washington Post.
According to the American media, Elon Musk’s agreement to buy Twitter is in danger due to the inability to verify Twitter figures on spam accounts.
Twitter and Elon Musk, on the verge of throwing everything away
As we published on Merca2.0, Twitter gave Musk and his team access to the platform’s raw data of hundreds of millions of daily tweets.
The objective? Let Musk himself see for himself the heart of the platform.
But three people familiar with the matter told the Washington Post that Musk’s team has concluded that Twitter’s figures for spam accounts are unverifiable.
If Musk withdraws his offer, he could face a years-long legal battle, the Post says.
In a call with executives on Thursday, Twitter said it removes more than a million spam accounts a day.
The call was intended to shed more light on the company’s fake and bot accounts as it waits for Musk to finalize the offer.
Musk has been arguing for weeks that Twitter “hides” the number of “spam bots” (automated accounts that generally promote scams and misinformation) on its service.
Twitter says that spam accounts make up far less than five percent of its active user base.
To calculate how many accounts are spam, Twitter said it checks a random sample of thousands of accounts per day, using public and private data such as IP addresses, phone numbers, geolocation and how the account behaves when active, to determine if it’s spam. or not real.
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