Musk says he’ll scrap Twitter buy unless he gets clarity on fake account volume!
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is putting pressure on Twitter, saying his deal to buy the company can’t move forward unless it shows public proof that less than 5% of the accounts on the social media platform are fake or spam.
In a series of tweets on Tuesday, Musk elicited user comments on the prevalence of bots on Twitter and called for government regulators to investigate.
Overnight, Musk tweeted that “20% fake/spam accounts, while 4 times what Twitter claims, could be much higher.
My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/musk-twitter-buy-holdup-spam-proof/
According to this story in the International Business Times, Siru Murugesan may not exist. Maybe Project Veritas was only videotaping a BOT!!!!
Audit finds half of Joe Biden’s Twitter followers are fake
By Jack Hobbs
May 17, 2022 5:51pm Updated
Half of Joe Biden’s Twitter followers are fake: audit
At least half of President Biden’s 22.2 million Twitter followers are bogus, a new audit revealed.
The audit, which was done for the social media giant by software firm SparkToro, found that 49.3% of the president’s followers are “fake followers,” according to Newsweek.
SparkToro has defined “fake followers” as “accounts that are unreachable and will not see the account’s tweets (either because they’re spam, bots, propaganda, etc. or because they’re no longer active on Twitter).”
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who is currently attempting to buy Twitter, has expressed concern over the growing number of fake accounts and proposed a potential crackdown on the sham accounts.
A new audit claims that nearly half of President Biden’s Twitter followers are fake.
Musk said he believes that 20% of all Twitter accounts are fake and vowed to not go through with his $44M purchase of the social media giant until the issue is resolved.
“My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate,” Musk said.
“Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%. This deal cannot move forward until he does.”
The audit, which was done for the social media giant by software firm SparkToro, found that 49.3% of the president’s followers are “fake followers.”
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Elon Musk said he believes that 20% of all Twitter accounts are fake and vowed to not go through with his $44M purchase of the social media giant until the issue is resolved.
Current Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal fired back at the world’s richest man saying that the digital giant suspends over half a million spam accounts every day and locks several millions of accounts they suspect might be spam.
Betcha’ Musk learns of far more than 5% fake accounts. So many fakes that he’ll see Twitter is not worth a crap, not to mention the billions he offered. No sale,
But, when # of fakes becomes widely known, no one will care. Demise of twitter.