{"id":448299,"date":"2022-05-17T12:17:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/doubt-about-spam-accounts-could-scuttle-twitter-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T09:17:03","slug":"doubt-about-spam-accounts-could-scuttle-twitter-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/doubt-about-spam-accounts-could-scuttle-twitter-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"#Doubt about spam accounts could scuttle Twitter deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27e248bb2cd\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a27e248bb2cd\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/doubt-about-spam-accounts-could-scuttle-twitter-deal\/#%E2%80%9CDoubt_about_spam_accounts_could_scuttle_Twitter_deal%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Doubt about spam accounts could scuttle Twitter deal&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CDoubt_about_spam_accounts_could_scuttle_Twitter_deal%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Doubt about spam accounts could scuttle Twitter deal&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/newspress-collage-22295534-1652779320914.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;1652764984\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>LONDON \u2014 Tesla CEO Elon Musk says his deal to buy <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> can\u2019t move forward unless the company shows public proof that less than 5% of the accounts on the platform are fake or spam.<\/p>\n<p>Musk made the comment in a reply to another user on Twitter early Tuesday. He spent much of the previous day in a back-and-forth with Twitter CEO Paraj Agrawal, who posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of tweets explaining his company\u2019s effort to fight bots and how it has consistently estimated that less than 5% of Twitter accounts are fake.<\/p>\n<p>In\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1526465624326782976\">his tweet Tuesday<\/a>, Musk said: \u201c20% fake\/spam accounts, while 4 times what Twitter claims, could be much higher. My offer was based on Twitter\u2019s SEC filings being accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that: \u201cYesterday, Twitter\u2019s CEO publicly refused to show proof of 5%. This deal cannot move forward until he does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a Miami <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> conference Monday, Musk estimated that at least 20% of Twitter\u2019s 229 million accounts are spam bots, a percentage he said was at the low end of his assessment, according to a Bloomberg <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p>Also at the All In Summit, Musk gave the strongest hint yet that he would like to pay less for Twitter than his $44 billion offer made last month.<\/p>\n<p>He said a viable deal at a lower price would not be out of the question, according to the report by Bloomberg, which said it viewed a livestream video of the conference posted by a Twitter user.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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