The billionaire also brought an explanation on Twitter. “The Twitter agreement will be temporarily suspended until details are available that less than five percent of users are in fact counterfeit,” Musk wrote in a tweet. The company released this estimate earlier this week.
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Musk has previously stated that he wants to disable accounts that are used, for example, to send spam messages. In the first quarter, Twitter officially had around 229 million users worldwide.
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Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuyn
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022
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The impostors pretended to be Musk
The various scams are not uncommon on Twitter, which Musk has seen for himself. His name was damaged by fraudsters who pretended to be him. They then collected about 45.5 million crowns from Musk’s supporters in the cryptocurrencies, the Popular Mechanics server reminded.
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In 2020, his account was even hacked. At the time, the richest man in the world complained that “fraudsters with cryptocurrencies hold parties with spambots in every thread,” that is, with automatic systems that distribute fraudulent or advertising posts on the network.
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So it is more than likely that Musk will try to clear Twitter of similar fraudsters and spambots to make it a better place for users. However, he did not publish any specific plans to address this issue. However, this could be achieved by having to have each Twitter account verified, which would essentially eliminate anonymous users from the game.
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The richest man on the planet signed an agreement to buy Twitter for 44 billion dollars (over a trillion crowns) last month, but now it has yet to be approved by social network shareholders. If that happens, Musk is likely to be the new head of Twitter, according to earlier statements.
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