Twitter's chief executive Parag Agrawal said he had 'confidence' in the company's estimates that less than 5% of users are spam
until he received more"details"supporting [the] calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users".His comments prompted speculation that he might be trying to renegotiate the price of the deal or back out.Read more:Musk had said that his team would do their own analysis, expressing doubt about the accuracy of numbers Twitter has reported in its most recent financial filings.
However, Mr Agrawal said it would not be possible for a third party to correctly estimate the figure because there is a"critical need to use both public and private information ". "Externally, it's not even possible to know which accounts are counted as mDAUs [monetisable daily active users] on any given day," he added.Musk replied with a smelly poop emoji and said:"So how do advertisers know what they're getting for their money?He gave a thumbs up to a comment by researcher Andrea Stroppa who said:"Parag, I'm surprised that you say that external researchers couldn't estimate bots. That's not true.
"As [a] researcher that worked ~9 years on these topics I can say that's possible. BTW: open your data."
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