Elon Musk on Saturday that Twitter Inc’s authorized staff accused him of violating a nondisclosure settlement by revealing that the pattern dimension for the social media platform’s checks on automated customers was 100.
Twitter authorized simply known as to complain that I violated their NDA by revealing the bot test pattern dimension is 100!
This truly occurred.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022
“Twitter legal just called to complain that I violated their NDA by revealing the bot check sample size is 100!” tweeted Musk, chief government of electrical automobile maker Tesla Inc.
Twitter authorized simply known as to complain that I violated their NDA by revealing the bot test pattern dimension is 100!
This truly occurred.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022
Musk on Friday tweeted that his $44-billion money deal to take the corporate non-public was “temporarily on hold” whereas he awaited information on the proportion of its faux accounts.
He stated his staff would check “a random sample of 100 followers” on Twitter to determine the bots. His response to a query prompted Twitter’s allegations.
Elon, are you able to elaborate a bit on the “process”? So that we as Twitter might help you to find out the true share of rip-off/spam/bot accounts
— Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) May 14, 2022
When a consumer requested Musk to “elaborate on process of filtering bot accounts,” he replied: “I picked 100 as the sample size number, because that is what Twitter uses to calculate <5% fake/spam/duplicate."
Any wise random sampling course of is okay. If many individuals independently get comparable outcomes for % of faux/spam/duplicate accounts, that can be telling.
I picked 100 because the pattern dimension quantity, as a result of that’s what Twitter makes use of to calculate <5% faux/spam/duplicate.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022
Musk tweeted throughout the early hours of Sunday that he’s but to see “any” evaluation that exhibits that the social media firm has faux accounts lower than 5%.
Elon, test this out https://t.co/M1LziOwmmC
— Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) May 14, 2022
He later stated that “There is some chance it might be over 90% of daily active users.”
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS