ELON Musk has responded to Twitter’s claims that his use of the poop emoji was ‘disparaging’.
In a tweet on Wednesday, the Tesla CEO simply called the claim by Twitter “bs”.
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Musk was responding to a tweet by ShackNews that read: “Twitter (TWTR) submits Elon Musk poop emoji tweet as evidence of disparaging behavior.”
Attached to ShackNews’ tweet was a screenshot of an exchange between Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal and Musk.
The exchange centered around Musk alleging that Twitter misrepresented the amount of spam-bot accounts on the site.
In response, Agrawal tweeted: “Unfortunately, we don’t believe that this specific estimation can be performed externally, given the critical need to use both public and private information (which we can’t share).”
“Externally, it’s not even possible to know which accounts are counted as mDAUs on any given day,” Agarwal’s tweet continued.
Musk then replied to Agarawal’s long thread with a single poop emoji, likely indicating that he did not believe the Twitter CEO’s remarks.
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The number of spam bots on Twitter has been a point of contention throughout the $44 billion Musk-Twitter deal.
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Musk’s research concluded that around 20 percent of Twitter accounts were “fake/spam accounts” – a figure that’s “4 times what Twitter claims, could be *much* higher.”
Twitter replied, saying that internal estimates are actually “well below” the reported five percent.
Shortly after, the billionaire decided to pause his offer until the issue was resolved.
“My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate,” Musk said.
“Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%. This deal cannot move forward until he does.”
The deal is off…
Most recently, Musk moved to terminate his $44billion plan to buy Twitter.
According to a letter from Musk, he claimed that Twitter is “in material breach of multiple provisions” of a previous letter of agreement.
Additionally, the letter states that Twitter “appears to have made false and misleading representations upon which Mr. Musk relied when entering into the Merger Agreement.”
The statement goes on to mention that Twitter has not complied with its previously stated contractual obligations.
Musk also again noted that Twitter failed to provide information regarding its spam and bot accounts, which was formally requested in a letter dating May 25.
“The May 25 Letter made clear that Mr Musk’s goal was to understand how many of Twitter’s claimed mDAUs were, in fact, fake or spam accounts,” the letter stated.
“Twitter has failed or refused to provide this information.”
