Elon Musk says Twitter accused him of violating NDA

In the ongoing tweet controversy central to the takeover of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR), Elon Musk suggests he is now the concentrate on of the social media firm’s authorized workforce.

“Twitter lawful just referred to as to complain that I violated their (non-disclosure settlement) by revealing the bot look at sample dimensions is 100!” Musk tweeted. “This in fact occurred.”

That tweet came as aspect of the thread to the first tweet Friday wherever the Tesla (TSLA) founder mentioned that his $44B takeover offer for Twitter (TWTR) was on maintain.

That tweet sent Twitter (TWTR) shares down approximately 10%.

It also lifted a good offer of speculation about Musk’s drive to near the offer (he states he’s nonetheless committed), him angling for a much better value and his means to finance it specified the current slide in Tesla shares.

Musk attributed the pause to his need to check out on the firm’s estimate that spam bot and pretend accounts accounted for 5% of monetizable day-to-day energetic people.

In response to his first tweet, Musk replied: “To locate out, my crew will do a random sample of 100 followers of @twitter. I invite others to repeat the similar course of action and see what they find …”

When requested by a user if he did not imagine about this ahead of he built his $54.20 bid, Musk explained: “I relied upon the accuracy of Twitter’s community filings.”

“Any smart random sampling course of action is good,” he mentioned. “If lots of persons independently get related outcomes for % of faux/spam/copy accounts, that will be telling. I picked 100 as the sample dimensions number, since that is what Twitter utilizes to compute <5% fake/spam/duplicate."

After that he said Twitter legal contacted him.

Musk’s latest and now-pinned tweet is:

“Very important to fix your Twitter feed:

1. Tap home button.

2. Tap stars on upper right of screen.

3. Select “Latest tweets”.

You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize. Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference.”

His next reply: “(This message brought to you by the Illuminaughty)”