Musk has also raged in the past against the many fake accounts and spambots on Twitter, a problem he wants to tackle as the new owner. That is also the reason why the takeover process is now on hold, at least temporarily. In a tweet he says that he first wants to wait for a recalculation from Twitter about the number of spam and fake accounts. In early May, the company said it estimates “less than 5 percent” of its 229 million accounts are spam or fake.
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