Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition temporarily suspended Until a fake account estimate comes out

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO[사진=연합뉴스]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that he will temporarily suspend the acquisition of Twitter.

Musk tweeted on the 13th (local time) that “details supporting the calculation that Twitter’s spam and fake accounts account for less than 5% of Twitter users are pending.” withholding,” he said.

Musk also linked to a Archyde.com article titled “Twitter estimates the rate of spam and fake accounts to be less than 5% of users” in the tweet.

Twitter is down 17% to $37.42 on the news, according to MarketWatch.

Earlier, Musk announced a policy to regulate ‘spam bots’ at the time of the Twitter acquisition contract last month, saying, “I want to make Twitter better than ever by defeating spam bots and authenticating everyone.”

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