Tesla's CEO Elon Musk, battling Twitter in court, recently tweeted a screenshot claiming that 90% of the comments in his feed are bots. It's interesting to note that the screenshots are from fake accounts with the CEO of Binance, Chanpeng Zhao, on their default profile picture, as reported first by Mashable.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk smiles as he addresses guests at the Offshore Northern Seas 2022 (ONS) meeting in Stavanger, Norway on August 29, 2022. - The meeting, held in Stavanger from August 29 to September 1, 2022, presents the latest developments in Norway and internationally related to the energy, oil and gas sector.
The CEO of Binance replied to Musk's tweet, saying that only his profile was authentic.
While the head of the cryptocurrency poked fun at the bots, Binance's official profile took a jab at their boss on Twitter.
"@Twitter please, I see enough of my boss already. Can you help so I don't have to see him 99x more each day?" the crypto's account wrote in a tweet."
I agree. Only this one is real. 😂
— CZ 🔶 BNB (@cz_binance) September 5, 2022
Musk was unimpressed with the commercial potential of hosting the Bird app, claiming it is filled with bots and spam. Although Twitter has consistently insisted that its estimate is only roughly approximate, Musk believes that the platform is not revealing its true number of bots.
Peiter Zatko, a former manager of security at Twitter, claimed that CEO Parag Agrawal hadn't been completely truthful about the situation.
Meanwhile, Dan Woods, a veteran security expert for the CIA and FBI, said that the app might have at least 80% bot accounts.
The bird app claims the spam accounts are less than 5%, but this did not persuade Musk to complete his buyout deal of the social media platform.
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Elon Musk vs. Twitter Saga
Musk withdrew from the agreement, claiming that the business had lied to him and government officials about the actual number of spam or bot account on the network.
Mike Ringler, one of Musk's lawyers, claimed that because Twitter had broken its contractual commitments, they were forced to cancel the agreement.
Ringler asserted that a clause in the $44 billion agreement between Musk and Twitter required the social media giant to give Musk copies of pertinent financial data so he could evaluate the volume of spam accounts on the system and its monetizable daily active users.
Ringler also cited occasions when Twitter ignored Musk's requests and denied them for arbitrary justifications.
Twitter petitioned a Delaware court to require Musk to complete the merger after Musk declared he would be pulling out of the agreement.
Musk was accused in the complaint of multiple merger agreement violations that had a detrimental impact on Twitter and its operations.
Twitter CEO Bret Taylor wants to hold Elon Musk liable for his contractual commitments. According to the lawsuit, Musk only withdrew because it was no longer in his best interests.
The lawsuit claims that the stock market declined after Musk decided to buy Twitter, which caused him to reconsider because Tesla was also impacted. He turned the tables on Twitter stockholders because he no longer wanted his name to be associated with the transaction.
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Written by Joaquin Victor Tacla
