Elon Musk tweeted on Friday that his USD 44-billion deal to take the company private was temporarily on hold. And he was waiting for data on the proportion of its fake accounts.
He tweeted on Saturday that Twitter’s legal team accused him of violation a nondisclosure agreement by revealing that the sample size for Twitter’s examination on fake account users was 100.
He said that his team would test “a random sample of 100 followers” on twitter to identify the bots” and “I picked 100 as the sample size number, because that is what Twitter uses to calculate <5% fake/spam/duplicate.”
It caused Twitter legal team told him he violated an NDA and his deal is on hold now.