San Francisco, Aug 7 : In the midst of the ongoing legal battle over the $44 billion acquisition deal to purchase Twitter, tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has called on the CEO of the company Parag Agrawal to have a public discussion on false accounts as well as spam. In a response to a user that outlined his allegations that included Twitter blocking Musk and providing him with “outdated information” regarding the microblogging platform the Tesla and SpaceX CEO wrote the following “good overview of the issue”.
“If Twitter simply provides their method of sampling 100 accounts and the way they confirm that they are genuine, the deal can continue on the original terms.If, however, it transpires that their Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings are fabricated and misleading the deal should not,” Musk said in a series of tweets.
“I I hereby challenge Parag Agrawal to a public discussion on Twitter’s bots’ percentage.He must prove to the world that Twitter has less than one percent fake or spam every day!”
The tech billionaire has also published an online poll asking those who use the microblogging service.
“Less than 5 percent of Twitter everyday users are fake or spam,” and during the first five hours of the polls, 66 percent of the respondents were able to choose “Lmaooo No”.
Musk’s fervent fan Pranay Pathole has criticized SEC and wrote: “I wonder what’s SEC doing? Are they even looking into these shady claims posted by Twitter?”
“Good question, but why aren’t they?” Musk replied.
Twitter has issued a comprehensive response to Musk’s countersuit against the microblogging platform, claiming that his assertions are “factually incorrect, legally inadequate and commercially unimportant”.
According Musk Musk, he was hoodwinked by Twitter to sign an agreement for a merger worth $44 billion.
“That tale is just as unbelievable and averse to reality as it appears.It’s just the tale that was conceived in an attempt to escape the merger agreement that Musk did not find attractive after the stock market — and with it, his vast personal wealth decreased in value.” Twitter had said in its legal response filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery in the US.
Musk’s attorneys filed 90 pages of counterclaims in the court and Twitter responded to them paragraph-by-paragraph.
The Tesla CEO, in his countersuit, stated that his decision was a result from of Twitter’s false representations about the status of Tesla and the “key metrics” that the platform uses to determine the amount of its customers.
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