Elon Musk says Twitter accused him of violating NDA

In the ongoing tweet controversy central to the takeover of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR), Elon Musk states he is now the goal of the social media company’s authorized crew.

“Twitter authorized just known as to complain that I violated their (non-disclosure settlement) by revealing the bot examine sample size is 100!” Musk tweeted. “This basically transpired.”

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

That tweet sent Twitter (TWTR) shares down approximately 10%.

It also lifted a wonderful offer of speculation about Musk’s need to close the offer (he claims he is nevertheless dedicated), him angling for a superior value and his potential to finance it provided the the latest slide in Tesla shares.

Musk attributed the pause to his will need to check on the firm’s estimate that spam bot and bogus accounts accounted for 5% of monetizable daily energetic consumers.

In reaction to his initial tweet, Musk replied: “To obtain out, my workforce will do a random sample of 100 followers of @twitter. I invite other individuals to repeat the similar procedure and see what they uncover …”

When asked by a user if he did not feel about this prior to he created his $54.20 bid, Musk reported: “I relied on the accuracy of Twitter’s general public filings.”

“Any sensible random sampling approach is high-quality,” he explained. “If lots of folks independently get comparable outcomes for % of phony/spam/duplicate accounts, that will be telling. I picked 100 as the sample sizing variety, because that is what Twitter employs to calculate <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)”