Elon Musk challenged Twitter’s CEO to a public debate over the weekend.
The Tesla CEO requested Parag Agrawal to show his claims concerning the variety of bot accounts on the platform.
“I hereby problem @paraga to a public debate concerning the Twitter bot proportion,” Musk tweeted. “Let him show to the general public that Twitter has <5% pretend or spam each day customers!”
He then pinned the tweet to his profile and polled Twitter customers on whether or not Twitter’s declare that lower than 5 p.c of its month-to-month each day lively customers are “pretend/spam” is true. The choices have been “Sure” with three robotic emojis or “Lmaooo no.”
Roughly 64.9% of customers voted no, indicating that Twitter will not be telling the reality concerning the bot accounts. In reference to the ballot, Musk then proclaimed that “Twitter has spoken.”
Musk was additionally tagged in a thread concerning the bot debate and said that Twitter’s purported misrepresentations concerning the bot accounts have been “not cool.”
NewsBusters reported over the weekend that Musk mentioned the Twitter deal would undergo if the platform supplies proof concerning the variety of “actual” accounts it has.
“If Twitter merely supplies their technique of sampling 100 accounts and the way they’re confirmed to be actual, the deal ought to proceed on authentic phrases. Nevertheless, if it seems that their SEC filings are materially false, then it mustn’t,” Musk tweeted.
He additionally responded to a question from a consumer asking whether or not the Securities Trade Fee (SEC) was investigating Twitter.
“Good query, why aren’t they?” he asked.
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