Elon Musk Accused Of Violating Privacy Agreement With Twitter Over Sample Bot
JAKARTA - Elon Musk on Saturday, May 14 tweeted that Twitter Inc's legal team accused him of violating a confidentiality agreement by disclosing that the sample size for social media platform checks on automated users was 100.
"Twitter Legal's team just called to complain that I violated their NDA by revealing the bot check sample size was 100!" tweeted Musk, chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O).
Musk on Friday, May 13 tweeted that a $44 billion (IDR 636.6 trillion) cash deal to make the company private was "temporarily on hold" while he awaited data on the proportion of fake accounts on Twitter.
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He said his team would test a "random sample of 100 followers" on Twitter to identify bots. Here's his response to a question that sparked Twitter's accusations.
When one user asked Musk to "describe the bot account filtering process," he replied: "I chose 100 as the sample size number, because that's what Twitter uses to calculate <5% fake/spam/duplicates."
Musk tweeted in the early hours of Sunday, May 15 that he had not seen “any” analysis showing that social media companies had fewer than 5% fake accounts. He went on to say that "There is likely to be more than 90% of daily active users."