wp-plugin-hostgator domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114ol-scrapes domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home4/scienrds/scienceandnerds/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/5\/13\/23070306\/elon-musk-twitter-deal-on-hold-spam-inauthentic-accounts<\/a> Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter is \u201ctemporarily on hold\u201d after the social network reported that false or spam accounts comprised less than 5 percent of its 226 million monetizable daily active users. The Tesla CEO, who offered to buy twitter for $44 billion<\/a>, tweeted a link to a May 2nd Reuters<\/em> report<\/a> on Twitter\u2019s filing, saying he wants to see the company\u2019s calculations.<\/p>\n \u201cTwitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam\/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,\u201d Musk tweeted. However, in a follow-up tweet, he added that he\u2019s \u201cstill committed to [the] acquisition<\/a>,\u201d suggesting that it\u2019ll proceed after Twitter provides satisfactory information on its numbers. <\/p>\n Still committed to acquisition<\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n Twitter\u2019s share price had plunged as much as 20 percent on news of the hold, while Tesla is up 6 percent as of this writing.<\/p>\n Below is the relevant section of Twitter\u2019s filing. It notes that its calculations about the number of false or spam accounts are an \u201cestimate,\u201d and that the real number \u201ccould be higher than we have estimated\u201d: <\/p>\n We have performed an internal review of a sample of accounts and estimate that the average of false or spam accounts during the first quarter of 2022 represented fewer than 5% of our mDAU during the quarter. The false or spam accounts for a period represents the average of false or spam accounts in the samples during each monthly analysis period during the quarter. In making this determination, we applied significant judgment, so our estimation of false or spam accounts may not accurately represent the actual number of such accounts, and the actual number of false or spam accounts could be higher than we have estimated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Twitter has had problems with math in the past. A few weeks ago it said in an earnings report that it had overcounted its daily users<\/a> for three years straight. The company said a technical error led to it counting multiple accounts as active, despite them being tied to a single user, and that this led to it miscounting its user numbers by as much as 1.9 million each quarter.<\/p>\n Musk has made cutting down on the amount of \u201cspam and scam bots\u201d and \u201cbot armies\u201d on Twitter a key part of his pitch for improving the service<\/a>, alongside prioritizing free speech and open sourcing the platform\u2019s ranking algorithms. <\/p>\n Putting the deal on hold represents the latest speedbump to hit Musk\u2019s attempted takeover of the social media network. The company had initially announced a so-called \u201cpoison pill<\/a>\u201d measure to prevent the takeover before eventually accepting the buyout in late April<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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