Elon Musk says Twitter legal team told him he violated an NDA
Elon Musk on Saturday that Twitter Inc’s legal team accused him of violating a nondisclosure agreement revealing that the sample size for the social media platform’s checks on automated users was 100.
Twitter legal just called to complain that I violated their NDA revealing the bot check sample size is 100!
This actually happened.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022
“Twitter legal just called to complain that I violated their NDA revealing the bot check sample size is 100!” tweeted Musk, chief executive of electric car maker Tesla Inc.
Twitter legal just called to complain that I violated their NDA revealing the bot check sample size is 100!
This actually happened.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022
Musk on Friday tweeted that his $44-billion cash deal to take the company private was “temporarily on hold” while he awaited data on the proportion of its fake accounts.
He said his team would test “a random sample of 100 followers” on Twitter to identify the bots. His response to a question prompted Twitter’s accusation.
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
— Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) May 14, 2022
When a user asked Musk to “elaborate on process of filtering bot accounts,” he replied: “I picked 100 as the sample size number, because that is what Twitter uses to calculate <5% fake/spam/duplicate.”
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.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 14, 2022
Musk tweeted during the early hours of Sunday that he is yet to see “any” analysis that shows that the social media company has fake accounts less than 5%.
Elon, check this out https://t.co/M1LziOwmmC
— Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) May 14, 2022
He later said that “There is some chance it might be over 90% of daily active users.”
