Elon Musk says Twitter accused him of violating NDA

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

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

That tweet arrived as element of the thread to the first tweet Friday in which the Tesla (TSLA) founder stated that his $44B takeover offer for Twitter (TWTR) was on hold.

That tweet despatched Twitter (TWTR) shares down almost 10%.

It also raised a great deal of speculation about Musk’s motivation to near the deal (he claims he is even now committed), him angling for a greater rate and his means to finance it specified the the latest slide in Tesla shares.

Musk attributed the pause to his need to have to verify on the firm’s estimate that spam bot and faux accounts accounted for 5% of monetizable daily active customers.

In response to his first tweet, Musk replied: “To discover out, my team will do a random sample of 100 followers of @twitter. I invite others to repeat the similar approach and see what they learn …”

When requested by a user if he failed to imagine about this ahead of he produced his $54.20 bid, Musk explained: “I relied upon the precision of Twitter’s community filings.”

“Any practical random sampling approach is wonderful,” he stated. “If a lot of folks independently get identical outcomes for % of bogus/spam/duplicate accounts, that will be telling. I picked 100 as the sample dimensions selection, for the reason that that is what Twitter makes use of to determine <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)”