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“Twitter legal just called to complain that I violated their NDA by revealing the bot check sample size is 100!” tweeted Musk, chief executive of electric car maker Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Inc.
Musk on Friday tweeted https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525049369552048129 that his $44-billion cash deal to take the company private was “temporarily on hold” while he awaited data on the proportion of its fake accounts.
He said his team would test “a random sample of 100 followers” on Twitter to identify the bots. His response to a question prompted Twitter’s accusation.
When a user asked https://twitter.com/PPathole/status/1525292561816256512 Musk to “elaborate on process of filtering bot accounts,” he replied https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1525304736538312707?s=20&t=2aqDR-hdkikuuHC__yzkdg, “I picked 100 as the sample size number, because that is what Twitter uses to calculate 5% fake/spam/duplicate.”
