Musk has put his $44 billion acquisition of the social media giant temporarily on hold as he awaits details supporting Twitter's calculations that spam and fake accounts make up less than 5% of the platform's users.
In a lengthy Twitter thread on Monday, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said it would be difficult to conduct an external review to determine the percentage of spam and fake accounts on the platform.
"Unfortunately, we don’t believe that this specific estimation can be performed externally, given the critical need to use both public and private information ," Agrawal explained. "Externally, it’s not even possible to know which accounts are counted as mDAUs on any given day." Agrawal reiterated the less than 5% estimate, which he said is calculated based on "multiple human reviews of thousands of accounts, that are sampled at random, consistently over time" from accounts the company counts as mDAUs.
"Each human review is based on Twitter rules that define spam and platform manipulation, and uses both public and private data to make a determination on each account," he added.
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