{"id":1487906,"date":"2022-05-23T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1487906"},"modified":"2022-05-23T07:31:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T11:31:23","slug":"elon-musk-wants-to-negotiate-the-price-for-twitter-down-based-on-the-number-of-fake-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-wants-to-negotiate-the-price-for-twitter-down-based-on-the-number-of-fake-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Wants to Negotiate the Price for Twitter Down Based on the Number of Fake Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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-wants-to-negotiate-the-price-for-twitter-down-based-on-the-number-of-fake-accounts%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=1487906&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<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody\">\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">B<\/span>illionaire <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> blasted Twitter for not being forthcoming about the number of real users, calling the lack of explanation \u201cvery suspicious.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Musk threw another caveat into his <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/twitter-accepts-buy-out-offer-from-musk-giving-billionaire-control-of-platform\">bid to purchase Twitter<\/a> on Saturday, suggesting that the price be adjusted based on the percentage of <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/bots\">fake accounts<\/a> on the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/social-media\">social media platform<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Conservative commentator Ian Miles Cheong <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stillgray\/status\/1528024178045370368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1528025397807521793%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fpublish.twitter.com%2F%3Fquery%3Dhttps3A2F2Ftwitter.com2Felonmusk2Fstatus2F1528025397807521793widget%3DTweet\">posed<\/a> the idea of cutting the Twitter purchase price: \u201cIf 25% of the users are bots then the Twitter acquisition deal should cost 25% less.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAbsolutely,\u201d Musk <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1528025397807521793\">responded<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>When <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/teslaownersSV\/status\/1528020815039500290\">asked<\/a> if Twitter had revealed \u201chow many real active users\u201d the platform had, Musk <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1528022458133004289\">criticized<\/a> the social media platform\u2019s tight-lipped stance. <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/watch-mtg-slams-trans-terrorism-and-says-leave-our-kids-alone-let-them-grow-up\">WATCH: MTG SLAMS \u2018TRANS-TERRORISM\u2019 AND SAYS \u2018LEAVE OUR KIDS ALONE. LET THEM GROW UP\u2019<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"TweetEmbed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No, they still refuse to explain how they calculate that 5% of daily users are fake\/spam! Very suspicious.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1528022458133004289?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 21, 2022<\/a>\n              <\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last week, Musk announced he would <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/musk-twitter-deal-cannot-move-forward-unless-ceo-shows-number-of-spam-accounts\">place his bid to take over Twitter on hold<\/a>, tweeting that his cash buyout offer for Twitter was based on the company&#8217;s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the number of fake or spam accounts on the platform &#8220;being accurate.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Musk has asked Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to &#8220;show proof\u201d that the spam or fake accounts are, in fact, less than 5%, as <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/technology\/musk-spams-twitter-ceo-during-thread-on-spam-accounts\">previously disclosed<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Musk said he expected the number of fake accounts is \u201cmuch higher.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/b> <\/p>\n<p>A 25% reduction of Musk\u2019s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter would lower the purchase price to $33 billion and the price per share from $54.20 to $40.65.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Elon Musk blasted Twitter for not being forthcoming about the number of real users, calling the lack of explanation \u201cvery suspicious.\u201d<\/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-1487906","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\/1487906","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=1487906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487906\/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=1487906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}