by williet12
TLDR: It’s going to come out in the near future that Twitter has been MASSIVELY underestimating their spam/bot accounts. The price is going to tank, and Elon Musk will renegotiate at a much cheaper price.
For those out of the loop on the recent events regarding Musk/twitter. Musk has put the deal “on hold” until her can verify the amount of bots/spam accounts twitter has.
Here is a timeline of tweets that paints a grim picture for Twitter:
Musk called twitter out saying they they estimated less than 5% of monthly active users are spam/bots
Musk also said that they got this statistic by sampling 100 followers of the @twitter account.
Twitter legal called Musk to complain that he violated NDA by revealing the bot sample size was 100. ??
Musk wants to “crowdsource” an answer to the bot question
So, users across Twitter are taking it upon themselves to conduct their own tests to come up with bot % estimates. And the results aren’t pretty. Keep in mind these reports are all anecdotal.
Musk responded with “Exactly. I have yet to see any analysis that has fake/spam/duplicates at <5%.”
That same user musk reponded to said “Guarantee is 25%+”
A user got an influx of followers and said about 50% of them were bots. Musk replied
JUST TODAY. The CEO of twitter made a Tweet thread responding to the bot allegations.
TLDR paraphrase: The process of counting bots/spam is hard and complicated. The public is incapable of getting proper estimates, But rest assured, we are providing accurate numbers to our share holders :). … trust me bro
Elon literally replied with a shit emoji
It’s not looking good for Twitter.
Positions. Planning on loading more 5/27s
UPDATE: new tweet reply from musk regarding the situation
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