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Elon Musk @elonmusk

20% fake/spam accounts, while 4 times what Twitter claims, could be *much* higher.

My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate.

Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%.

This deal cannot move forward until he does.

3:32 AM · May 17, 2022

1 posted on 05/17/2022 11:15:43 PM PDT by McGruff
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In a lengthy Twitter thread on Monday, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal said it would be difficult to conduct an external review to determine the percentage of spam and fake accounts on the platform.

“Unfortunately, we don’t believe that this specific estimation can be performed externally, given the critical need to use both public and private information (which we can’t share),” Agrawal explained. “Externally, it’s not even possible to know which accounts are counted as mDAUs on any given day.”


2 posted on 05/17/2022 11:16:49 PM PDT by McGruff (Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
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How is that under the SECs purview?


3 posted on 05/17/2022 11:19:33 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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How is that under the SECs purview?


4 posted on 05/17/2022 11:23:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Oh, Lord. Who runs that place? Someone from India?


7 posted on 05/17/2022 11:29:22 PM PDT by sumuam
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As stated before… I wonder if Elon’s plan all along was to expose Twitter for the bias product it really has become. I’m waiting for ad buyers to sue if their reach was less than stated. I also think Elon wants to rub SEC’s nose in the incorrect numbers filed over the years by Twitter and SEC’s lack of action.


10 posted on 05/17/2022 11:37:13 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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Musk has used the process of window shopping for Twitter to expose the fact that they’re not really a business, but rather a fraudulent, biased, political tool. The brilliance of that is that by drawing back that curtain, he has put them in a position where their only hope to remain a going concern is to accept his terms on any new, lower offer (if he makes another offer - I think he will).

Who else in their right mind would invest in Twitter, knowing what they know about the company now? That leaves only Musk between a transformed Twitter or its oblivion.

17 posted on 05/17/2022 11:52:40 PM PDT by noiseman (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.)
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Does Facebook have fake accounts too? If so, prosecute Zuckerberg.


18 posted on 05/18/2022 12:04:25 AM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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Jack Twitter should go to prison for fraud.


19 posted on 05/18/2022 12:09:10 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Below, please note the 8 year quarterly chart for TWTR.

Twitter was trading around $30 when Covid started.

Twitter rode the Stay-At-Home spike up to $80.

In 2021, price sanity returned, and Twitter was on a clear trajectory right back to $30 - or lower.

If Musk had been patient, he could have bought the whole company for $35 a share.


25 posted on 05/18/2022 12:41:48 AM PDT by zeestephen
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The Twitter CEO has now admitted they can’t actually disclose the percentage of fake accounts they have.

That admission itself goes to the heart of the fraud of their operation.

Twitter is heading toward worthlessness.

Their ugliest secret is the direct involvement of the CIA in their propaganda operation.


32 posted on 05/18/2022 1:04:20 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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BTTT


33 posted on 05/18/2022 1:04:40 AM PDT by nopardons
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I think the real issue is, was Twitter taken away from Jack Dorsey by USG agencies? When you read the list of “board members”, each with little or no equity and many with foreign names, you have to wonder, who is really in charge?

Maybe the “private companies” doing all the censorship and narrative creation aren’t so private after all.


36 posted on 05/18/2022 1:21:40 AM PDT by Jim Noble (Love's redeeming work is done)
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The deal will likely still go through. This is about getting the best price. If the percentage is higher than 5%, he knocks a few billion off the offer. This falls under “due diligence”.

CC


41 posted on 05/18/2022 2:13:21 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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If there are a significant percentage of accounts which are fake....and 20% sure would be significant, then Twitter has defrauded investors, advertisers, federal regulators, etc.


42 posted on 05/18/2022 2:15:53 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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SEC is part of deep state.
Expect no justice from them.


53 posted on 05/18/2022 3:19:28 AM PDT by Palio di Siena
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59 posted on 05/18/2022 3:57:12 AM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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.......since Dorsey and Agrawal COULD BE charged criminally for knowingly (or they should have known) misrepresenting, in a major way, the VALUE of the company, no wonder they are finding difficulty releasing the data.

SEC and Biden and Biden’s Marxist acolytes in his innermost circle, along with their media PARTNERS, will COVER for Twitter.


80 posted on 05/18/2022 6:59:05 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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I’ve never had a Twitter account, but do follow some users with the Brave web browser(ad blocking). Doing some snooping around, the world wide average estimate of people using ad blockers is around 43%. That is a lot of missing eyeballs for advertisers.


83 posted on 05/18/2022 7:04:36 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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so who is Twitter’s CPA???


85 posted on 05/18/2022 7:25:09 AM PDT by SteveH (.)
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93 posted on 05/18/2022 10:42:42 AM PDT by SteveH (.)
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