Elon Musk has spiced up the Twitter buying-and-sell story, with the billionaire once again commenting on his concerns regarding the number of spam accounts on the social media site before claiming he could reduced its $44 billion offer.
Twitter already has stated before that fake or spam accounts accounted for less than 5% of daily active users monetizing in the first quarter — an estimate doubted by Musk. The first day reported by BloombergTesla CEO on Monday told Omnipotent Summit in Miami that if the bot and spam problem proves to be worse than Twitter’s indicated, a deal for a lower price is likely to be accounted for.
“It really depends on a lot of factors here. I’m still waiting for some reasonable explanation for the number or type of fake or spam accounts on Twitter. And Twitter refused to tell us. seems like a strange thing,” – Musk said.
“It’s like if you said, ‘Okay, I’ll agree to buy your house.’ You say the house has less than 5% termites. That’s an acceptable number. But if it’s successful, then this percentage. 90% of the time. termites, that’s not okay,” Musk added.
Musk further questioned the legitimacy of Twitter’s bot estimate, questioning whether the user experience reflects the 95% legitimate user estimate given by the social media company.
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These concerns may be well-founded, as SparkToro and Followerwonk’s general analysis out of 44,058 randomly selected active public Twitter accounts, 19.42% – nearly four times Twitter’s Q4 2021 estimate – fit the “cautious definition of a fake account or spam”.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal Once Again Addresses Spam User Issues In One the subject of the tweets on Monday – a topic that Musk answered with a poo emoji.
Agrawal states that one of the key challenges involved in tackling spam includes removing bot accounts “without inadvertently suspending real people or adding unnecessary friction for real people as they use them.” Twitter: None of us want to settle for a captcha every time we use Twitter”.
“Fighting spam is extremely *dynamic*. Enemies, their goals, and tactics evolve constantly – often in response to our work! You can’t build a set of rules for spam detection today and hopefully they’ll still work tomorrow. They won’t,” concluded Agrawal.
The comments follow Twitter’s fired two top executivesAgrawal allegedly told an employee about to leave that he hoped to “take the team in a different direction” – even though the company was on the cusp of a sale.
Meanwhile, Musk warn his followers on Sunday with the news that “Legal Twitter just called to complain that I violated their NDA by revealing a bot test sample size of 100! This actually happened”.
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