• March 28, 2024

Elon Musk Has Laid Down The Gauntlet To Twitter’s CEO

 Elon Musk Has Laid Down The Gauntlet To Twitter’s CEO

Amid the stir over the acrimonious Twitter deal, Tesla CEO and Space X founder Elon Musk has challenged Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to a public debate over the social media giant’s “bot percentage”.

If it wasn’t Elon Musk calling out the Twitter CEO, it has been long gone, banned, or censored.

It’s actually fun to watch how Musk run around free on Twitter. Musk has Twitter in a position where it can’t kick Musk off the site because he is the potential new owner.

The challenge comes as Twitter and Musk engage in a legal battle over the company as Musk attempts to back out of his $44 billion purchase of the company.

In April of this year, Musk submitted a bid to take over Twitter from the Securities and Exchange. After the companies agreed to proceed with a take-private deal, Musk said he was announcing his acquisition and accused Twitter of providing false numbers, including in its SEC filings relating to the number of monetizable daily actives Users and the number of spam and bot accounts on the social network.

Twitter then sued Musk in a Delaware chancellery to ensure the deal went through as promised, and Musk filed counterclaims and a counterclaim there on July 29.

According to Daily Wire, Musk’s team conducted an analysis of the accounts on Twitter using a publicly available tool called “Botometer,” which was created by researchers at the University of Indiana.”

“Musk’s team alleges that spam accounts make up approximately one-third of the accounts on the platform and comprise roughly 10% of the platform’s monetizable daily active users (mDAU),” the outlet added.

Twitter cybersecurity researcher Andrea Stroppa tweeted Saturday:

“Clearly, from Twitter SEC filings, mDAU is the key metric. It is the key metric for its business rev. And its market value; mDAU is an ad hoc metric, created to protect Twitter’s interests. No competitor uses something similar. When @elonmusk requested more information about spam and fake accounts, Twitter provided a vague response. Then provided outdated data; Then offered a fake data set (not real “firehose”); Then provided a cleaned data set where they already suspended the malicious accounts.”

“Furthermore, Twitter, refused to say to @elonmusk and his team, who reviews for spam, how those reviewers are trained, the criteria it uses, the process it follows, the standards it applies, or how Twitter verifies the accuracy of the reviewers’ results,” Stroppa added. “Why does a multi-billion company invest little in these analyses? Why most of the things related to this topic are vague and incomplete? Why is that hard to provide data, criteria, and methods to the public? Many of you hated FB for little transparency, but Twitter is worse.”

With this, Musk issued a public debate challenge to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal:

“Good summary of the problem,” Musk tweeted. “If Twitter simply provides their method of sampling 100 accounts and how they’re confirmed to be real, the deal should proceed on original terms. However, if it turns out that their SEC filings are materially false, then it should not.”

“I hereby challenge @paraga to a public debate about the Twitter bot percentage,” Musk added. “Let him prove to the public that Twitter has <5% fake or spam daily users!”

Sources: DailyWire, CNN

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