The head of Twitter defended on Monday the war of the messaging platform against the “bots” that, the aspiring customer Elon Musk, enrage the platform, so the billionaire responds with a poop emoji.
The exchange took a stand in the tweets as Musk’s $44 billion acquisition on Twitter remained “temporarily on hold,” awaiting questions about the social media company’s estimates of the number of accounts, or “bots. “
“It turns out that the spam/bot challenge is cascading and obviously makes Twitter’s deal confusing,” Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note to investors.
Financial analysts suspect Elon Musk’s laments about automated “bots” running Twitter accounts as a ploy to reduce the value of the deal by $44 billion or justify its exit. Photo: AFP/Angela Weiss
“The bot challenge at the end of the day known to the New York taxi force and we find it more like the ‘dog ate the task’ excuse to rescue the Twitter deal or talk about a lower price. “
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said the platform suspends more than half a million potential fake accounts every day, even before they are seen, and blocks millions more every week that fail verifications to make sure they’re controlled. through humans and not software.
Internal measures show that less than five percent of active Twitter accounts on a given day are spam, but this research will be replicated externally due to the need to maintain the privacy of user data, Agrawal argued.
Musk, who said bots infest Twitter and would make them a priority if he owned the platform, responded to Agrawal’s tweet with a poop emoji.
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal is retaliating against Elon Musk for fighting “robots” on the service, while co-founder Jack Dorsey has indicated his for part of Musk’s vision for the platform. Photo: TWITTER via AFP
“So how do advertisers know what they get for their money?”Musk tweeted in a later reaction about the desire to prove that Twitter users are genuine people.
“It’s basic to Twitter’s financial health. “
The procedure used to estimate the number of accounts that are bots shared with Musk, Agrawal said.
The head of SpaceX like Tesla, Musk is listed lately through Forbes as the richest user in the world, with a fortune of around $230 billion, much of it in Tesla stock.
Seen through his champions as an iconoclastic genius and through his detractors as an erratic megalomaniac, Musk many investors in April with his Twitter search.
Musk described that his motivation stems from a preference to make some loose speech on the platform and stimulate the monetization of one that is influential in the media and political circles but suffers to achieve successful growth.
Musk said he was in favor of lifting the ban on Donald Trump, who was kicked off the platform in January 2021, some time after the former US president’s efforts to undo his electoral defeat led to the Jan. 6 attack on the U. S. Capitol.