Musk’s concerns about phoney accounts are addressed by Twitter’s CEO

The head of Twitter has hit back after tycoon Elon Musk said his $44bn arrangement to purchase the stage was “waiting” while he looked for additional insights concerning counterfeit records.

CEO Parag Agrawal said he had “certainty” in the company’s cases that under 5% of clients are spam.
He said the firm suspended around 500,000 suspect records day to day.

Experts have theorized that Mr Musk might be searching for ways of rethinking the cost of the arrangement or leave.

Mr Agrawal said the organization utilized a mix of public and private information to figure out which records were genuine, exploring irregular examples at regular intervals.

The safety buffers are well inside its gauge of spam accounts being under 5%, he said.

He said the firm had shared an “outline” of its interaction with Mr Musk last week.

“We… anticipate proceeding with the discussion with him, and every one of you,” he said,

On Friday, Mr Musk said he had required the arrangement to be postponed forthcoming data “supporting [the] computation that spam/counterfeit records in all actuality do for sure address under 5% of clients”.

He added later that he was “still dedicated to [the] securing”.