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By Katie Paul, Krystal Hu and Hyunjoo Jin
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Elon Musk<\/a> suggested on Monday that he could seek a lower price for Twitter<\/a> Inc, saying that there could be at least four times more fake accounts than what the company has said.
\"You can't pay the same price for something that is much worse than they claimed,\" he said at a conference in Miami.
Musk, who on Friday said his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter was on hold pending information on spam accounts, said that he suspects they make up at least 20% of users - compared to Twitter's official estimates of 5%.
When asked at the conference whether the Twitter deal<\/a> is viable at a different price, Musk responded, \"I mean, it's not out of the question.\"
\"The more questions I ask, the more my concerns grow,\" he said at the All-In Summit 2022 conference.
\"They claim that they've got this complex methodology that only they can understand ... It can't be some deep mystery that is, like, more complex than the human soul or something like that.\"
Twitter shares extended losses in late afternoon trading following Musk's comments.
The stock dropped more than 8% to close at $37.39, lower than its level the day before Musk revealed his Twitter stake in early April, sowing doubts that the billionaire entrepreneur would proceed with his acquisition of the company at the agreed price.
Twitter Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal tweeted earlier on Monday that internal estimates of spam accounts on the social media platform<\/a> for the last four quarters were \"well under 5%,\" responding to days of criticism by Musk of the company's handling of phony accounts.
Twitter's estimate, which has stayed the same since 2013, could not be reproduced externally given the need to use both public and private information to determine whether an account is spam, he added.
Musk responded to Agrawal's defense of the company's methodology with a poop emoji.
\"So how do advertisers know what they're getting for their money? This is fundamental to the financial health of Twitter,\" Musk wrote.
Musk has pledged changes to Twitter's content moderation practices, railing against decisions like the company's ban of former President Donald Trump as overly aggressive while pledging to crack down on \"spam bots\" on the platform.
Musk has called for tests of random samples of Twitter users to identify bots. He also said, \"there is some chance it might be over 90% of daily active users.\"
Independent researchers have estimated that anywhere from 9% to 15% of the millions of Twitter profiles are bots.
Twitter does not currently require users to register using their real identities and expressly permits automated, parody and pseudonymous profiles on the service.
It does ban impersonation and spam, and penalizes accounts when the company determines their purpose is to \"deceive or manipulate others\" by engaging in scams, coordinating abuse campaigns or artificially inflating engagement.
Musk's comments to a private audience could add to concerns about his disclosures of market moving information.
Musk, known for his candid Twitter posts, has a long history of skirmishes with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; recently, a U.S. judge slammed him for trying to escape a settlement with the SEC requiring oversight of his Tesla tweets.
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伦麝香周一暗示,他可能会寻求更低的价格推特公司,说可能会有至少四倍比公司所说的假账户。
“你不能支付同样的价格,比他们声称更糟,”他在迈阿密的一个会议上说。
麝香,周五表示,他的440亿美元收购Twitter垃圾邮件账户一直搁置,等待信息,说他怀疑他们至少占20%的用户——相比,Twitter官方估计的5%。
当被问及是否出席会议Twitter的交易以不同的价格是可行的,麝香回答说,“我的意思是,这不是不可能的。”
“我问更多的问题,我的担心增长,”他说,2022年总峰会会议。
“他们声称,他们已经得到了这个复杂的方法,只有他们能理解…它不能被一些谜团,比人的灵魂更复杂,或类似的东西。”
Twitter股票在尾盘扩大跌幅麝香的言论。
股票跌逾8%,收于37.39美元,低于前一天水平4月初麝香透露他的Twitter的股份,播下怀疑的亿万富翁企业家将继续他的收购公司同意价格。
推特首席执行官Parag Agrawal写道:周一早些时候内部估计的垃圾邮件账户社交媒体平台在过去四个季度“低于5%,“麝香的批评的回应天公司的虚假账户的处理。
Twitter的估计,自2013年以来一直保持不变,不能复制外部考虑到需要使用公共和私人信息,以确定一个帐户是垃圾邮件,他补充说。
麝香对Agrawal国防与粪便emoji公司的方法。
“所以广告商怎么知道他们得到的钱吗?这是Twitter的财务健康的基础,“麝香写道。
麝香已承诺改变Twitter的内容审核实践,反对决定像前总统唐纳德·特朗普公司的禁令过于激进,而承诺打击“垃圾邮件机器人”平台。
麝香呼吁随机抽样的Twitter用户的测试来识别机器人。他还说,“有机会可能会超过90%的每日活跃用户。”
独立的研究人员估计,9%到15%的数百万Twitter档案是机器人。
Twitter目前并不要求用户用自己的真实身份进行注册和明确允许自动化,模仿和匿名资料服务。
它禁止模拟和垃圾邮件,和惩罚账户当公司决定他们的目的是“欺骗或操纵他人”,从事诈骗、协调虐待活动或人为地抬高订婚。
麝香的言论私人观众可以添加关注市场移动信息的披露。
麝香,坦率著称的推文,历史悠久的冲突与美国证券交易委员会(sec);最近,一位美国法官猛烈抨击他试图逃跑和解与SEC要求监督他的特斯拉的微博。
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