{"id":1477390,"date":"2022-05-17T07:14:39","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T11:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1477390"},"modified":"2022-05-17T07:14:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T11:14:43","slug":"elon-musk-says-him-buying-twitter-at-a-lower-price-is-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-says-him-buying-twitter-at-a-lower-price-is-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Says Him Buying Twitter at a Lower Price Is Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felon-musk-says-him-buying-twitter-at-a-lower-price-is-possible%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1477390&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A viable Twitter deal is &#8220;not out of the question&#8221; <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"at a lower price\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-05-16\/musk-says-twitter-bots-likely-account-for-at-least-20-of-users\" data-vars-content-id=\"a897ec61-81d6-4110-9a17-8ba726cdb70f\" data-vars-headline=\"Musk: Twitter deal at lower price \" not out of the question>at a lower price<\/a>, <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"Elon Musk\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/05\/13\/elon-musk-says-twitter-deal-temporarily-on-hold\" data-vars-content-id=\"a897ec61-81d6-4110-9a17-8ba726cdb70f\" data-vars-headline=\"Musk: Twitter deal at lower price \" not out of the question>Elon Musk<\/a> said at the <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"2022 All-In Summit\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/summit.allinpodcast.co\/\" data-vars-content-id=\"a897ec61-81d6-4110-9a17-8ba726cdb70f\" data-vars-headline=\"Musk: Twitter deal at lower price \" not out of the question>2022 All-In Summit<\/a> Monday, as he&#8217;s continued to express skepticism about the company&#8217;s estimate of spam and fake accounts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>State of play<\/strong>: Musk recently put his <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"deal to buy Twitter\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2022\/05\/13\/elon-musk-says-twitter-deal-temporarily-on-hold\" data-vars-content-id=\"a897ec61-81d6-4110-9a17-8ba726cdb70f\" data-vars-headline=\"Musk: Twitter deal at lower price \" not out of the question>deal to buy Twitter <\/a>&#8220;temporarily on hold&#8221; as he seeks out more information about spam and fake accounts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Driving the news:<\/strong> In a series of <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"tweets\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paraga\/status\/1526237578843672576\" data-vars-content-id=\"a897ec61-81d6-4110-9a17-8ba726cdb70f\" data-vars-headline=\"Musk: Twitter deal at lower price \" not out of the question>tweets<\/a> Monday, Twitter\u2019s chief executive <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"Parag Agrawal\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/paraga\/status\/1526237578843672576\" data-vars-content-id=\"a897ec61-81d6-4110-9a17-8ba726cdb70f\" data-vars-headline=\"Musk: Twitter deal at lower price \" not out of the question>Parag Agrawal<\/a> defended the company&#8217;s estimate of &#8220;well under 5%&#8221; fake accounts and bots and laid out how it arrived at the figure.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Musk replied to Agrawal&#8217;s tweet and responded with the <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"poop emoji\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1526246899606601730\" data-vars-content-id=\"a897ec61-81d6-4110-9a17-8ba726cdb70f\" data-vars-headline=\"Musk: Twitter deal at lower price \" not out of the question>poop emoji<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Musk went further<\/strong> at the All-In Summit, saying without providing evidence that it &#8220;seems beyond unreasonable&#8221; that Twitter&#8217;s number of human accounts is at over 95%.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Does anyone have that experience?&#8221; Musk asked.<\/li>\n<li>Musk said that there is probably four to five times the number of bots compared to what Twitter said. The lowest estimate, he said, is that Twitter is 20% full of bots.<\/li>\n<li>Per <a class=\"gtmContentClick\" data-vars-link-text=\"Bloomberg\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-05-16\/musk-says-twitter-bots-likely-account-for-at-least-20-of-users\" data-vars-content-id=\"a897ec61-81d6-4110-9a17-8ba726cdb70f\" data-vars-headline=\"Musk: Twitter deal at lower price \" not out of the question>Bloomberg<\/a>, Musk said that a viable deal for Twitter at a lower price is not \u201cout of the question.\u201d\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Our thought bubble, <\/strong>via Axios&#8217; Scott Rosenberg<strong>: <\/strong>Every Twitter user&#8217;s experience varies based on who you follow and who follows you. Musk is a highly atypical user with a massive public profile, 90 million followers, and deep ties to the crypto world, where bots run rampant. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No doubt he encounters tons of bots all the time! Most of us don&#8217;t, and have little reason to question the company&#8217;s calculations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: This story has been corrected to show Musk replied to Agrawal&#8217;s tweet, he did not quote-tweet it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A viable Twitter deal is &#8220;not out of the question&#8221; at a lower price, Elon Musk said at the 2022 All-In Summit Monday, as he&#8217;s continued to express skepticism about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1477390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}