Elon Musk vs Parag Agrawal Controversy: Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been making headlines for the acquisition of Twitter for a long time. Meanwhile, now the Twitter deal regarding fake and spam accounts does not seem to be progressing at the moment.
While on the one hand, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal says the spam account on Twitter, that there are less than 5% of fake accounts on the social networking site. Elon Musk estimates that there is more than 20% of fake accounts on Twitter.
New Twitter's Owner Elon Musk on Tuesday questioned Twitter's claim that more than 95% of daily active users on the microblogging site are real via a poll. Musk wrote on his Twitter handle, "Twitter claims that over 95% of daily active users are real, unique human beings. Does anyone have any experience with this?"
20% account fake: Elon Musk
At present, there is a war between Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Elon Musk over the spam account on Twitter. Earlier, Musk has made it clear that the Twitter acquisition deal will go ahead only if spam accounts on the microblogging site are less than 5%. Elon Musk says that out of about 229 million accounts on Twitter, at least 20% are being operated by 'spam bots'. Which is 4 times more than Twitter's claim or can be even more.
Visible commitment to buy Twitter
Last Friday, Musk stirred up a tweet, when he said that his plans to buy Twitter have been temporarily put on hold due to the fake account. After which in a tweet he made it clear that this is a temporary halt, he is still committed to buying Twitter.
Meanwhile, on Monday, Twitter's shares saw a jump of just over 8% and closed at $ 37.39. At the same time, Tesla's stock saw a fall of 6% on Monday. Tesla shares closed down on Monday at $724.37.
For the last week, the CEO of Twitter is also very active on the platform. Elon Musk held the first Twitter deal regarding bots and after that, he appealed to everyone to do a test to find out the number of bots. On Monday, Parag has done many tweets. He said, 'Let's talk about bots. And do so about data benefits, fax and so on. Parag wrote, 'We suspend more than 5 lakh spam accounts every day. Along with this, we also lock millions of accounts every week on the possibility of being spam - if they do not pass the Human Verification Challenge.
Musk has put on hold the deal to buy Twitter for $ 44 billion. They have put the deal on hold due to a lack of correct information about bots or spam accounts on Twitter.