Elon Musk said his deal to buy Twitter cannot move forward until he has full transparency on the number of fake and spam accounts.
From Bloomberg:
Musk pressed further on that front Monday at a Miami tech conference, estimating that fake users make up at least 20% of all Twitter accounts. That was the low end of his estimate on the number of bots on the network, and he asked rhetorically if it could be as high as 90%, according to a livestreamed video of his remarks posted by a Twitter user.“Currently what I’m being told is that there’s just no way to know the number of bots,” Musk said at the conference. “It’s like, as unknowable as the human soul.”Twitter declined to comment. The San Francisco-based company reports quarterly that spam accounts make up less than 5% of total users.
Musk already put the deal on hold over the fake and spam accounts but said he is still committed to buying the platform.
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