Afterbullying Twitter employeesand saying he wants the former president of the swamp , and the U.S. , Donald Trumpback on the political platform , Tesla CEO Elon Musk did what everyone thought he might do anyway . He thought long and hard about what it meant to really grease one’s palms Twitter , and is manifestly having second thought process .
Early on Friday , Musktweetedthat his $ 44 billion deal to bribe Twitter was “ temporarily on hold ” because he was look for confirmation that the amount of spam and bastard invoice on the platform did indeed represent less than 5 % of users .
“ Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details substantiate calculation that junk e-mail / faux accounts do indeed present less than 5 % of users , ” Musk tweeted .
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is having second thoughts about buying Twitter.Photo: Patrick Pleul/Pool/AFP (Getty Images)
Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending inside information supporting calculation that spam / bogus accounts do indeed exemplify less than 5 % of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuyn
— Elon Musk ( @elonmusk)May 13 , 2022
He admit a link to aMay 2 Reuters articlethat report on Twitter ’s gauge phony and spam account in the first quarter of the year , which it reported to be 5 % of its monetizable daily participating user . According to Reuters , the blue bird social media mesh had a total of 229 million users who were served ads in the first quarter .
More than an hour after his tweet announcing the pause , presumably in reply to the havoc he was causing , Muskaddedthat he was “ still committed to attainment . ”
Gizmodo arrive at out to Twitter for comment on Friday but has not yet receive a response .
Musk visited Twitter ’s headquarters for a clandestine get together last Friday , The New York Timesreported . A spokesman severalize the Times : “ as part of the transaction planning process , Elon Musk visited Twitter ’s authority for a meeting . ” While take a moment to look into whether the program you ’re buying indeed has enough drug user to make it worth your while is no doubt sensible , it seems a bit off that Musk is bringing this up now , ormore than two weeksafter he declare his design to buy the company . Plus , it ’s not as if Twitter were hiding this information . It reported the number in filings on May 2 .
Furthermore , it ’s not as if Musk was n’t cognisant of the spam accounts on the platform . He has frequently rallied against them and made“defeating the spam bots”one of his antecedency in the very mechanical press button announcing his mountain on April 25 .
Considering cryptocurrency’srecent nosedive — Musk is a bighearted crypto fan and own crypto , though how much is n’t publically have it off — and Teslalosing 20 % of its valuesince its CEO announce that he was die to corrupt his favorite digital toy , Musk ’s pause is not surprising from a fiscal viewpoint . It is ironic from his personal standpoint though , since he ’s said he “ does n’t give care about the economic science at all ” when it amount to buy Twitter .
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