In continuation of his announcement from a day ago that the Twitter acquisition deal was being put on hold temporarily, world’s richest person Elon Musk announced on Saturday his team will do ‘random sampling’ of 100 followers of Twitter’s account on the social media giant’s own platform.
“To find out, my team will do a random sample of 100 followers of @twitter. I invite others to repeat the same process and see what they discover…,” Musk, who has nearly 93 million followers, informed.
“The bots are very angry at being counted,” he added.Meanwhile, the sampling, will, presumably, be done to estimate the percentage of spam or fake accounts out of the total 61.7 million accounts that follow Twitter. On Friday, Musk put his acquisition of Twitter on hold citing a Reuters report that said that according to the company’s own calculations, false or spam accounts represented fewer than 5 per cent of of its monetisable daily active users during the first quarter.
