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Twitter notes that it recurrently removes about 5 percent of accounts for being spam and generated to stop the purchase of the network.
The billionaire, CEO of Tesla, faced with the threat of bothas previously stated that it may withdraw from investing.
Elon Musk had offered Twitter 44 billion US dollars for the definitive purchase of the company.
Currently, Twitter removes over a million accounts from spam every day. This was confirmed by the social network itself today, Thursday, July 7, during a call with executives.
The purpose of this meeting was to inform in detail about the threat of the fake accounts and campaigns botallegedly generated in recent days with the intention of stopping the purchase of the richest man on the planet, Elon Musk.
Twitter deletes more than a million accounts a day
In a recent statement, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Y star link, assured that he would be willing to withdraw from the table the 44 billion dollars offered to the company. This is because, supposedly, the company has not been able to respond on the subject of the accounts fake around active users.
In fact, the billionaire has repeatedly pointed out that this has been one of the great threats that Twitter has faced since its creation. On April 21, he would have shared a tweet on his account where he mentioned “fight the bots or die trying”declaring again its firm intentions.
If our twitter bid succeeds, we will defeat the spam bots or die trying!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 21, 2022
Supposedly, as mentioned in the call, the bills spam they represent less than five percent of active users. In addition, the company took the opportunity to point out that they invest many resources a day to combat this evil. It should be noted that the man in charge of Tesla has not presented any kind of convincing evidence on this accusation.
Although many might wonder what the problem really is regarding the subject. In the first place we could name the trend control, So a horde of bot I could choose what is talked about and saturate the conversation spaces. Also, they could be in charge of spreading misinformation on the net.
This also affects advertisers, since they are the ones who decide the investments of their money and, of course, campaigns that reach a huge amount of bot They should prepare to lose income.
Apparently, Elon Musk received from Twitter a study with hard data on the amount of tweet that are shared daily, however, this has not been confirmed by either party. The businessman commented before the rumors that the buyer had the right to access a complete understanding of the company’s business model, a fact that would have motivated him to stop the purchase on May 13.
In recent interviews, the millionaire confirmed to go ahead with the purchase, while condemning that the amount of spam represents an “attack” against freedom of expression and financial investment.
Some companies like Alphabet Inc. and Microsoft have sought to stay ahead of hackers, sharing recommendations that can help make it easier to identify these moves: urgent call to action or threat, first-time or infrequent senders, bad spelling and grammar, generic greetings, unidentified email domains. matching and suspicious links or unexpected attachments. On the other hand, some companies have taken extreme measures to combat these external agents.
The consequences in other areas, such as the sale of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) have caused asset owners to lose their money thanks to the lack of security that blockchain technology supposedly offers.
Since its inception in 2006, the social network has stood out among the most successful. Furthermore, along with Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebookhas been one of the few that have been able to survive the generational change.
In early April 2022, the relationship between Musk and Twitter became a media issue. Specialized media revealed its recent acquisition of a stake in the 9.1 percent, with a value of almost 3 billion US dollars. This forced company shareholders to give in to what represented an agreement of almost 44 billion US dollars.
Musk’s pressure could stem from recent company reports revealing that while revenue from Twitter amounted to more than US$5 billion, the company incurred a net loss of US$221 million.
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