{"id":39171,"date":"2022-06-06T17:53:14","date_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/musk-accuses-twitter-of-actively-resisting-requests-for-information\/"},"modified":"2022-06-06T17:53:14","modified_gmt":"2022-06-06T17:53:14","slug":"musk-accuses-twitter-of-actively-resisting-requests-for-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/musk-accuses-twitter-of-actively-resisting-requests-for-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Accuses Twitter of &#8216;Actively Resisting&#8217; Requests for Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul class=\"summary-list\">\n<li>Elon Musk says Twitter has violated the terms of his deal by refusing to provide data. <\/li>\n<li>Musk wants to understand how many bot or otherwise fake accounts Twitter has. <\/li>\n<li>Musk says the breach could allow him to walk away from the $ 43 billion deal. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"inline-newsletter-signup &#10;                        headline-regular loading\" id=\"formContainer\" data-component-type=\"inline-newsletter-module\" data-event-label=\"10_things_tech\" data-list=\"10 Things In Tech You Need To Know\" data-acq-source=\"techverticalinline\">\n<section class=\"inline-newsletter-content\">\n<div class=\"js-loader hidden\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"svg-icon \" version=\"1.1\" role=\"img\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" style=\"enable-background:new 0 0 50 50;\" xml:space=\"preserve\">\n                        <title>Loading<\/title>\n                        <desc>Something is loading.<\/desc>\n                        <path fill=\"#111\" d=\"M43.935,25.145c0-10.318-8.364-18.683-18.683-18.683c-10.318,0-18.683,8.365-18.683,18.683h4.068c0-8.071,6.543-14.615,14.615-14.615c8.072,0,14.615,6.543,14.615,14.615H43.935z\">\n                          <animatetransform attributetype=\"xml\" attributename=\"transform\" type=\"rotate\" from=\"0 25 25\" to=\"360 25 25\" dur=\"0.6s\" repeatcount=\"indefinite\"\/>\n                        <\/path>\n                      <\/svg><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p>Elon Musk may be ready to walk away from his deal to buy Twitter after accusing the social network of stonewalling negotiations, according to a letter sent by his lawyers Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The saga&#8217;s latest kerfuffle revolves around Musk&#8217;s determination to understand how much of Twitter&#8217;s userbase is made up of bots, rather than actual human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Unsatisfied with Twitter&#8217;s own figures (the company <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.twitter.com\/en_us\/topics\/company\/2020\/bot-or-not\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" target=\"_blank\">has said bots make up less than 5% of its users<\/a>), the Tesla and SpaceX CEO has sought data from the social network to conduct his own analysis using random samples of users.  He says the company has refused, accusing it of violating their original agreement, in which he waived the usual due diligence that usually accompanies such buyouts. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Musk believes the company is actively resisting and thwarting his information rights (and the company&#8217;s corresponding obligations) under the merger agreement,&#8221; the letter said.  &#8220;This is a clear material breach of Twitter&#8217;s obligations under the merger agreement and Mr. Musk reserves all rights resulting therefrom, including his right di lui not to consummate the transaction and his right di lui to terminate the merger agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musk said the alleged stonewalling gives him the right to walk away from the deal entirely. <\/p>\n<p>Twitter shares were down roughly 3.7% in early trading following the regulatory disclosure.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter has offered to explain its own methodologies for estimating the number of bot accounts, according to the filing.  The company did not return a request for comment on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>CEO Parag Agrawal <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paraga\/status\/1526237580638859267\" data-analytics-module=\"body_link\" target=\"_blank\">said in May that Musk&#8217;s method for calculating bot accounts wouldn&#8217;t work<\/a>, noting that such an analysis would require private information that Twitter can&#8217;t share.  Musk responded with a poop emoji. <\/p>\n<p>Twitter initially accepted Musk&#8217;s offer to take it private for $ 43 billion in April.  Then in May, Musk said the deal would be &#8220;on hold&#8221; until Twitter could prove that fake accounts made up less than 5% of its userbase.  The debacle has since evolved into a public spat between Musk and Twitter leadership. <\/p>\n<p>However, Twitter&#8217;s board has said it plans to enforce its end of the agreement, which includes a $ 1 billion breakup fee.  Earlier in June, Twitter said the required waiting period for government oversight of large mergers had elapsed, eliminating on of the final hurdles to closing the deal. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk says Twitter has violated the terms of his deal by refusing to provide data. Musk wants to understand how many bot or otherwise fake accounts Twitter has. Musk says the breach could allow him to walk away from the $ 43 billion deal. Loading Something is loading. Elon Musk may be ready to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/musk-accuses-twitter-of-actively-resisting-requests-for-information\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Musk Accuses Twitter of &#8216;Actively Resisting&#8217; Requests for Information<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/629e037f7bc6a80018b671e0?width=1200&format=jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}