Elon Musk previously stated that his $44 billion cash bid to buy Twitter was “temporarily on hold.”
Elon Musk, the billionaire, said on Saturday that he had violated a nondisclosure agreement. By revealing that the sample size for the social media platform’s automatic user checks was 100.
Mr. Musk, the CEO of electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc, tweeted, “Twitter legal just phoned to complain that I breached their NDA by exposing the bot check sample size is 100!”
Twitter legal just called to complain that I violated their NDA by revealing the bot check sample size is 100!
This actually happened.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022
Mr. Musk tweeted on Friday that his $44 billion cash plan to take the firm private was “temporarily on hold” while he awaited data on the company’s bogus account proportion.
To identify the bots, he said his team would test “a random sample of 100 followers” on Twitter. Twitter made the charge after his response to a query.
When a user asked Musk to “elaborate on process of filtering bot accounts,” he replied, “I picked 100 as the sample size number, because that is what Twitter uses to calculate <5% fake/spam/duplicate.”
Any sensible random sampling process is fine. If many people independently get similar results for % of fake/spam/duplicate accounts, that will be telling.
I picked 100 as the sample size number, because that is what Twitter uses to calculate <5% fake/spam/duplicate.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022