Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday that Twitter’s legal team accused him of breaching a nondisclosure agreement by stating the sample size for the social media platform’s automatic user checks was 100.
If Elon Musk restores Trump’s Twitter account, it may set a precedent for other sites to follow suit. Twitter (TWTR) legal recently phoned to protest that I breached their non-disclosure agreement (NDA) by exposing the bot check the sample size is 100! Musk, the CEO of electric car manufacturer Tesla, tweeted (TSLA).
Musk tweeted on Friday that his $44 billion cash plan to take the firm private was “temporarily on hold” while he waited for data on the fraction of bogus accounts.
To detect the bots, he claimed his team will test “a random sample of 100 followers” on Twitter. Twitter’s claim stemmed from his response to a query.
When a user requested Musk to “explain the method of screening bot accounts,” he responded, “I chose 100 as the sample size number since it is what Twitter uses to compute 5% fake/spam/duplicate.”
Musk tweeted early Sunday that he had yet to see “any” investigation indicating that the social media business has fewer than 5% false accounts.
He subsequently stated, “There is a potential it might be more than 90% of daily active users.”
