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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · May 14, 2022
Elon, can you elaborate a bit on the "process"? So that we as Twitter can help you in finding out the real percentage of scam/spam/bot accounts
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 14, 2022
Any sensible random sampling process is fine. If many people independently get similar results for % of fake/spam/duplicate accounts, that will be telling.
I picked 100 as the sample size number, because that is what Twitter uses to calculate <5% fake/spam/duplicate.
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Fintwit
@fintwit · May 14, 2022
You didn’t think about this before offering $44 billion to buy the company?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 14, 2022
I relied upon the accuracy of Twitter’s public filings
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stevenmarkryan
@stevenmarkryan · May 14, 2022
I think between 42-69% of my new daily followers are bots.
Not even joking.
Sarah048527054 with 3 tweets, 0 followers and a 3 month old account is basically half of my news followers.
Unsure if these are regularly purged. I hope so..
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 14, 2022
Interesting
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Tesla Owners Silicon Valley
@teslaownersSV · May 14, 2022
Let me know how we can help
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 14, 2022
If we collectively try to figure out the bot/duplicate user percentage, we can probably crowdsource a good answer
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Tesla Owners Silicon Valley
@teslaownersSV · May 14, 2022
How are defining random ? How will you select them
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 14, 2022
Ignore first 1000 followers, then pick every 10th. I’m open to better ideas.
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Coffee Table Tesla
@coffeetabletsla · May 14, 2022
Why followers of that account, specifically? Why not yours?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 14, 2022
Pick any account with a lot of followers
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users
reuters.com/technology/twi…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 14, 2022
To find out, my team will do a random sample of 100 followers of @twitter.
I invite others to repeat the same process and see what they discover …
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 14, 2022
Replying to @BillyM2k
The axiomatic error was that housing prices only go up. I don’t support predatory lending, but many of those lenders were severely wounded or didn’t survive.
They dug their own graves – a lesson we should all take to heart, including me.
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users
reuters.com/technology/twi…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
Still committed to acquisition
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
How did it even start?
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
The straw war is emblematic of larger social issues
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Gali
@Gfilche · May 13, 2022
$TSLA FSD Beta has been outstanding with this new version @elonmusk
making me significantly more bullish on a self-driving @Tesla FSD being safer (2x+) than the average human by end of 2022
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
It still needs more work imo, but we can probably widen the beta a little next month
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Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸
@pmarca · Apr 13, 2022
Paper straws were the current thing for about 5 minutes based on a totally fake study by a 9 year old in 2011. Now I get to suck on wood pulp with my iced tea every morning, 11 years later. The kid is now 20, I hope he only wears clothes made out of paper. reason.com/2018/01/25/cal…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
This is messed up
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Jeff 💙✌️
@JeffTutorials · May 13, 2022
It started from a viral YouTube video in 2017 of a straw being pulled from a turtle's nose.
Look up "Save The Turtles" - It's directly connected to the paper straw movement.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
Seriously?
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
The last straw was the last straw!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
How did it even start?
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Pranay Pathole
@PPathole · May 13, 2022
Who else? 😉
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
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Tesla Owners Silicon Valley
@teslaownersSV · May 13, 2022
Paper straws are the worst. Stops working after like two minutes.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
And tastes like cardboard!
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
Stop the war on straws!
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
The last straw was the last straw!
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
Stop the war on straws!
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Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
The drinking bleach hoax was a hoax politifact.com/factchecks/202…
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · May 13, 2022
But I do think that twitter should authenticate all real users and prioritize those replies above unauthenticated users
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