Somehow we’ve ended up at a point where Elon Musk’s entire Twitter buyout hinges on the precise number of spam and bot accounts posting across the platform. Anonymous sources from Musk’s camp told The Washington Post this week that the deal is dangerously close to falling apart, and, yes, the company’s data on fake Twitter accounts is the point upon which Musk continues to harp.
In response to this ongoing debacle, Twitter has gone ahead and released some more data about those fake accounts. More than a million accounts are removed from the site every single day in an effort to keep Twitter free of bots and spam, the company told reporters in a briefing.
