Musk v. Twitter.
Drama starts where logic ends.
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The Only cure for lost illusions is fresh illusions.
According to the WSJ, Twitter Inc. (TWTR) officials on Thursday, 7/7/2022, doubled down on defending the accuracy of their calculation of spam on the platform, addressing an issue that has become a potential stumbling block in Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal to buy the company.
Elon Musk is seeking to terminate his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, saying that the company hasn’t provided the necessary data and information he needs to assess the prevalence of fake or spam accounts, according to a regulatory filing Friday.
Twitter “is in material breach of multiple provisions of that agreement” and appears to have made “false and misleading representations” when agreeing, according to a letter from Mr. Musk’s lawyer filed with securities regulators.
The filing caps nearly two months of high-stakes suspense over Mr. Musk’s intentions while setting up a possible legal battle over what comes next for the social-media platform.
Bret Taylor, chairman of Twitter’s board of directors, tweeted Friday afternoon that the committee plans to pursue legal action to enforce the deal at a price and terms initially agreed.
Around 70% of Mr. Musk’s followers on Twitter are spam, fake or inactive, versus 41% for all other accounts with between 65 million and 120 million followers, according to an estimate last month from SparkToro LLC, a maker of audience-research software. Across the company’s data set, the average Twitter user has fewer than 100 followers across the company’s data set, and fewer than 10% are fake or spam accounts.
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A Twitter bot is a bot software that uses the Twitter API to interact and engage with Twitter users. The Twitter bots can be programmed or automated to perform a specific task or series of tasks. It can autonomously tweet, retweet, like, follow, unfollow, or DM other accounts.
I do love business owners, Wall Street, and journalists attempting to justify a flawed business model.
Mr. Musk is “attracting so much attention to find targets to scam,” said Kaicheng Yang, a computer scientist and Ph.D. candidate at Indiana University who researches bot activity. Yang also built a bot-detection tool called Botometer. “If I were a scammer, would I look at the average user?”
I don’t believe in criticizing just to criticize, so allow me to make a suggestion. For those of us on Twitter who are there to connect with people from around the globe exchanging ideas, let us “all” a process of ID validation from the day we open our account. Then I will be happy to screen my followers based on an ID check.
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But alas, social media platforms like big, grandiose numbers that fake accounts garner. The truth hurts, but Musk is unwilling to buy(literally pay for) the BS. Or will he?
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Soap operas are filled with such drama.
Until next time. Stay safe.