Elon Musk says Twitter accused him of violating NDA

In the ongoing tweet controversy central to the takeover of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR), Elon Musk claims he is now the concentrate on of the social media firm’s lawful crew.

“Twitter legal just identified as to complain that I violated their (non-disclosure arrangement) by revealing the bot test sample sizing is 100!” Musk tweeted. “This actually transpired.”

That tweet came as component of the thread to the authentic tweet Friday the place the Tesla (TSLA) founder stated that his $44B takeover deal for Twitter (TWTR) was on keep.

That tweet despatched Twitter (TWTR) shares down virtually 10%.

It also lifted a excellent deal of speculation about Musk’s want to near the offer (he claims he’s continue to fully commited), him angling for a superior value and his skill to finance it specified the latest slide in Tesla shares.

Musk attributed the pause to his will need to examine on the company’s estimate that spam bot and pretend accounts accounted for 5% of monetizable day by day active consumers.

In reaction to his first tweet, Musk replied: “To come across out, my staff will do a random sample of 100 followers of @twitter. I invite other folks to repeat the exact procedure and see what they learn …”

When asked by a consumer if he failed to assume about this ahead of he built his $54.20 bid, Musk reported: “I relied upon the precision of Twitter’s public filings.”

“Any practical random sampling process is good,” he said. “If quite a few people independently get similar benefits for % of fake/spam/replicate accounts, that will be telling. I picked 100 as the sample sizing quantity, due to the fact that is what Twitter takes advantage of to work out <5% fake/spam/duplicate."

After that he said Twitter legal contacted him.

Musk’s latest and now-pinned tweet is:

“Very important to fix your Twitter feed:

1. Tap home button.

2. Tap stars on upper right of screen.

3. Select “Latest tweets”.

You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize. Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference.”

His next reply: “(This message brought to you by the Illuminaughty)”