Elon Musk suggests slashing Twitter feed based on bot count

Elon Musk suggests slashing Twitter feed based on bot count

Suggest Elon Musk Saturday, his agreement to buy Twitter for $44 billion and make it private should be cut in proportion to the number of bots on the platform.

Musk tweeted “absolutely” in response to Ian Miles Cheung, who tweeted: “If 25% of users are bots then Twitter takeover deal It should cost 25% less.”

The Tesla CEO also expressed skepticism about Twitter’s desire to address the presence of bots on their platform, tweeting, “I’m concerned that Twitter has a spam-reduction inhibitor, as it reduces perceived daily users.”

In a separate tweet, he added: “They still refuse to explain how they calculate 5% of daily users are fake/spam! Very suspicious.”

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Last week, Musk set transparency about the number of fake or spam accounts a prerequisite for his $44 billion Twitter billion pending purchase.

Musk tweeted, “20% of fake/spam accounts, while 4 times what Twitter claims, could be *much* much higher. My guess was based on the accuracy of Twitter SEC deposits.”

Elon Musk’s tweet is displayed on the Twitter screen and logo. The CEO of Tesla criticized Twitter as it tried to increase its influence on the social media platform. (Jacob Borzeki/NoorPhoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)

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Musk said Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has publicly refused to provide evidence that less than five percent of users are bots, leading Musk to say the deal “can’t move forward until he does.”

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If Musk backs out of the deal, he will be required to pay a $1 billion termination fee to Twitter and could be subject to additional lawsuits, according to Teslarati.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives at the Axel Springer Media Award in Berlin

In this December. 1, 2020, file photo, SpaceX owner and Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer Media Award in Berlin. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool photo via AP, File) (AP newsroom)

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In the The first quarter of 2022Twitter’s monetable daily active user base grew 15.9% year-over-year to 229 million, including 39.6 million daily active users in the United States and 189.4 million international daily active users.

Fox News’ Timothy Nirouzi contributed to this report.

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