Tesla chief Elon Musk, who recently sought to terminate the $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter, has now challenged microblogging platform CEO Parag Agrawal to a public debate over long-discussed spam bots issue.
“Let him prove…that Twitter has <5% fake or spam daily users,” Musk tweeted. He also started a poll asking users whether less than 5% of Twitter’s daily users are fake or spam.
Tesla boss Elon Musk has said that if micro-blogging platform Twitter could provide its method of sampling 100 accounts and how it confirmed that the accounts are real, his $44 billion purchase deal for the company should proceed on original terms.
“If Twitter simply provides their method of sampling 100 accounts and how they’re confirmed to be real, the deal should proceed on original terms. However, if it turns out that their SEC filings are materially false, then it should not,” Musk tweeted .
Musk also fired a salvo at Twitter with regard to scrapping his buyout deal with the company and said the social media platform did not disclose that it had filed for “risky” litigation against the Indian government, thereby “placing its third-largest market at risk”.
He added that Twitter must follow the laws in India. Meanwhile, Twitter replied that it has challenged certain blocking orders by the Indian government.
Twitter dismissed Musk’s that he was hoodwinked into signing the deal to buy the social media company, saying that it was “implausible and contrary to fact”.
Musk had said that Twitter misrepresented the size of its user base to distort its value and then “played a months-long game of hide-and-seek” as he sought more in-formation to complete the $44 billion purchase of the company.
