According to a media report, Twitter’s board of directors wants to respond to requests for information from tech billionaire Elon Musk. Twitter will soon provide Musk with detailed data that will provide information on the number of fake accounts in the short-message service, the Washington Post reported, citing informed circles. Musk had made a $44 billion purchase offer for Twitter, but recently threatened to withdraw the offer.
Musk said Monday that Twitter was “clearly breaching” its “obligations under the merger agreement”. The company “actively” resisted its requests for information about fake accounts on the online network. He considers this a clear breach of obligations under his takeover bid.
Musk wants to know how many bots there are
Musk makes the multi-billion dollar takeover dependent on the number of spam or fake accounts in the SMS service. These are so-called bots: computer programs that use algorithms to communicate with users and pretend to be real people. According to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, less than 5 percent of accounts active on Twitter are bots.
However, the method used by the platform to capture these fake accounts is not “reasonable,” Musk said. He had to do his “own analysis”. Some pundits see Musk’s probing questions about the bots as a way to prepare for his early exit from the Twitter deal — or push the acquisition price down.
Source: Krone
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