Elon Musk’s Twitter may have put him in legal hot water once more. As you may recall, the Tesla and SpaceX entrepreneur tweeted on Friday that his purchase of Twitter was “temporarily on pause” after the business revealed that bogus and spam accounts accounted for less than 5% of its monetizable daily active users in the first quarter of 2022.
Musk indicated that his team will test “a random sample of 100 followers” to verify Twitter’s figures after his tweet caused Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to remark the firm was “prepared for all possibilities.” One of the billionaire’s replies to a question about his technique, according to him, drew a reaction from Twitter’s legal team.
In the alleged offending tweet, he claimed, “I choose 100 as the sample size number because it is what Twitter uses to compute 5% fake/spam/duplicate.” Musk subsequently explained his actions, saying, “Twitter legal just phoned to protest that I broke their NDA by exposing the bot check sample size is 100.”
Musk’s remarks were met with silence from Twitter.
Musk’s effort to purchase Twitter took another turn when he took aim at the platform’s automated feed. “The algorithm is manipulating you in ways you aren’t aware of,” he claimed.
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was drawn to the message. “It was just meant to save you time when you are gone from [the] app for a period,” Dorsey said to Musk. “Pull to refresh also returns to reverse chron.”
Dorsey then reacted to someone who claimed that Twitter’s algorithmic feed was “definitively” engineered to deceive. “No, it wasn’t made to be manipulated.” “It was made to catch you up and work off what you do,” Dorsey explained. “However, that might have unexpected repercussions.”
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