Twitter Complains Musk Used Poop Emoji To Disparage Them

By
Lawrence Richard
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A legal complaint from Twitter reveals the company is furious about a tweet sent by Elon Musk in which he uses a poop emoji in response to their explanation for failing to show less than 5% of users are fake.

The social media platform says the poop emoji was used to publicly disparage them.

“Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” Musk tweeted on May 13, adding, “The bots are angry at being counted.”

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal argued it was not possible for Twitter to determine which accounts are fake “on any given day.”

“Our actual internal estimates for the last four quarters were all well under 5% – based on the methodology outlined above. The error margins on our estimates give us confidence in our public statements each quarter,” Agrawal said.

“Unfortunately, we don’t believe that this specific estimation can be performed externally, given the critical need to use both public and private information (which we can’t share),” he added.

“Externally, it’s not even possible to know which accounts are counted as mDAUs on any given day.”

Take a look at Musk’s reply:

Musk’s lawyer alleges that Twitter was “in material breach of multiple provisions” of the company takeover.

As of now, the deal has been terminated by Musk. Twitter claims the terminate was “invalid and wrongful.”