Elon Musk says Twitter accused him of violating NDA

In the ongoing tweet controversy central to the takeover of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR), Elon Musk says he is now the target of the social media company’s lawful team.

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

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

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

It also elevated a excellent deal of speculation about Musk’s want to shut the deal (he says he’s nevertheless dedicated), him angling for a greater price and his potential to finance it provided the current slide in Tesla shares.

Musk attributed the pause to his need to look at on the company’s estimate that spam bot and faux accounts accounted for 5% of monetizable every day active end users.

In reaction to his initial tweet, Musk replied: “To obtain out, my crew will do a random sample of 100 followers of @twitter. I invite other folks to repeat the identical method and see what they discover …”

When requested by a consumer if he did not consider about this in advance of he produced his $54.20 bid, Musk reported: “I relied upon the accuracy of Twitter’s public filings.”

“Any reasonable random sampling process is wonderful,” he stated. “If lots of people independently get similar outcomes for % of bogus/spam/replicate accounts, that will be telling. I picked 100 as the sample sizing number, simply because that is what Twitter takes advantage of to estimate <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)”