Twitter accuses potential buyer Elon Musk of violating a confidentiality agreement. Musk previously revealed that the sample size for a fake account verification on the social media platform is 100 users by default. He allegedly leaked sensitive information.
Tesla’s CEO announced that he had been approached by the company’s legal team.
Musk has already agreed with the board of Twitter to buy and cut the company for $44 billion (more than $42 billion). On Friday, he said he first wanted clarity about the number of spam accounts with the messaging service. An official Twitter document released earlier this month revealed that less than 5% of daily users have spam accounts. The number of active users is important for potential profitability because spam accounts do not respond to advertisements.
Musk said his team will test a “random sample of 100 followers” on Twitter to identify fake accounts. He said he chose this number because Twitter always bases its calculations for fake accounts on this sample size. With this last comment, Musk would have violated privacy.
Source: NU
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