Elon Musk puts the Twitter deal on a temporary hold

Tesla & SpaceX CEO Elon Musk who has been pursuing the acquisition of Twitter for about a month now has just posted on Twitter that the deal has been put on a temporary hold. He announced this in an early morning tweet that he published around 5 AM Austin, Texas-time where he has his basic home instead of California.

The reason for this hold he explained is a filing that Twitter has placed on Monday which states that the social media platform has less than 5% spam/fake/bot accounts (reported by Reuters).

“Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” Musk tweeted.

Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuyn

Musk has not posted any further comments under the above tweet and hasn’t put forward more details on how long this temporary hold will stay in place. But it is clear that he is probably not convinced that Twitter has less than 5% spam & bot accounts. He probably believes there are way more bots on the social media platform than this tiny figure.

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