Elon Musk Wants to Know How Many Fake Accounts Twitter Has, But Experts Say His Approach Is All Wrong

Elon Musk on Friday suggested he was putting his acquisition of Twitter on hold to try and figure out if Twitter is underreporting the number of fake accounts it has.

CEO said he would do to determine how many spam, fake and duplicate accounts exist on Twitter:

Musk also said, without providing evidence, that he picked 100 as the sample size number for his study because that's the number Twitter uses to calculate the numbers in their earnings reports. He wrote,"Also I feel like 'doesn't trust the Twitter team to help pull the sample' is it's own kind of red flag.

and avoid being taken in by false claims online, told CNBC that sampling one hundred followers of any single Twitter account should not serve as"due diligence" for making a $44 billion acquisition.

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