Musk-Twitter Bot Spat Masks $44B Deal

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Reportedly, Elon Musk's ambition to acquire Twitter is in risk. Again.

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Thursday morning, social network hosted a media call to discuss how it measures spam bots.

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An issue that has become a major factor in Musk's $42 billion acquisition plan.

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Musk believes the number is much higher than Twitter's 5% estimate.

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It was a dramatic turn in a day that began with Twitter executives explaining how they count bot accounts.

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"The number of spam bots on Twitter is well below the 5% threshold it mentions in filings"

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"It calculates these bots using human review of thousands of random accounts each quarter."

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"It uses some personal account data – IP addresses and phone numbers – to help determine if accounts are run by real people."

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Musk's camp believes Twitter's spam account numbers are unverifiable, according to the Post.

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