New twist in the series “ Will Elon Musk buy Twitter? “. “The legal department of Twitter just called me complaining that I violated their nondisclosure agreement,” tweeted this Sunday. the billionaire. “Because I revealed that they were checking for fake accounts from samples of 100 accounts,” he continues.
Indeed, several tweets above, the boss of Tesla and Space X declared to everyone’s surprise on Friday that Twitter acquisition talks were on hold time to find out more regarding how Twitter calculated the number of fake accounts on its platform and if this figure was indeed less than 5%. “To find out, my team will do the test with a random sample of 100 Twitter followers,” Elon Musk then offered the next day, inviting users to do the same.
A user then asked him to explain why he does so. “I chose 100 as the sample size because that’s what Twitter uses to arrive at the result of less than 5% of fake accounts, bots and duplicates on its platform”, justified Elon Musk. It is this revelation that would not have pleased the legal department of Twitter.
