With deal in doubt, Elon Musk and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal debate bots on Twitter
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Elon Musk are engaged in a deba over an issue Musk has made central to his proposed purchase of the platform — spam.
In a series of tweets on Monday, Agrawal laid out Twitter's approach to spam accounts and its challenges dealing with them.
Twitter (TWTR) suspends "over half a million spam accounts every day," Agrawal wrote. He reiterated a longstanding statistic from Twitter that less than 5% of its daily active users are spam accounts — a stat that Musk cited on Friday while announcing that his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter was "temporarily on hold."
Agrawal said that estimate is based on "multiple human reviews ... of thousands of accounts" sampled at random, but knowing externally which accounts are counted on any given day is not possible. Twitter has previously acknowledged that while it believes its estimates to be "reasonable," the measurements were not independently verified and the actual number of fake or spam accounts could be higher
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