ELON MUSK'S TWITTER BOT CLAIMS ARE BEING QUESTIONED

  • 19/08/2022

Leading bot researchers have questioned Elon Musk's legal team's filings in his battle with Twitter. Mr Musk used Botometer, an online tool that tracks spam and fake accounts, in his countersuit against Twitter. Mr Musk's team estimated that 33% of "visible accounts" on the social media platform were "false or spam accounts" using the tool.

The figure, according to Botometer creator and maintainer Kaicheng Yang, "doesn't mean anything." A court case is due in October in Delaware, where a judge will rule on whether Mr Musk will have to buy it. In July, Mr Musk said he no longer wished to purchase the company, as he could not verify how many humans were on the platform. 

Since then, the world's richest person has claimed repeatedly that fake and spam accounts could be many times higher than stated by Twitter.

In his countersuit, made public on 5 August, he claimed a third of visible Twitter accounts, assessed by his team, were fake. Using that figure the team estimated that a minimum of 10% of daily active users are bots.

Twitter says it estimates that fewer than 5% of its daily active users are bot accounts. 

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