The statement comes after a long quarrel with the Twitter CEO.
, citing worries over the number of spam accounts on the platform. In its regulatory filings, the company has pegged this number at under five percent, but Musk went on record to state that the number was around 20 percent.
Now, Musk has publicly confirmed that the deal cannot proceed unless Twitter can publicly show that its spam accounts are lower than 5 percent. My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate.This deal cannot move forward until he does.Elon Musk's Twitter acquisition has become an ongoing saga that is also affecting the company's stock price which is now trailing at around $37. Musk has been vehement about fighting spam accounts from the very beginning.
Calling spam campaigns highly sophisticated and hard to catch, Agarwal also added that the company suspends over half a million accounts every day before others even see them on Twitter and lock millions of accounts each week on
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