Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday that Twitter Inc’s legal team accused him of violating a non-disclosure agreement by disclosing that the sample size for the social media platform’s checks on automated users was 100.
Twitter Legal just called to complain that I violated their NDA by disclosing bot check sample size 100!
It actually happened.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 14 May 2022
“Twitter legal just called to complain that I violated their NDA by disclosing bot check sample size 100!” Musk tweeted, Chief Executive Officer of electric car maker Tesla Inc.
Musk tweeted Friday that his $44 billion cash deal to take the company private was “temporarily on hold” while he awaited data on the proportion of his fake accounts.
Twitter temporarily put on hold pending details that support calculations that spam/fake accounts actually represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuyn
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 13 May 2022
He said his team would test “a random sample of 100 followers” on Twitter to identify the bots. His response to a question prompted Twitter’s allegation.
Any sensible random sampling procedure is fine. If multiple people independently found similar results for the % of fake/spam/duplicate accounts, it would be telling.
I chose 100 as the sample size number, because Twitter <5% uses it to count fakes/spams/duplicates.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) 14 May 2022
When a user asked Musk to “explain the process of filtering bot accounts”, he replied, “I chose 100 as the sample size number, because Twitter <5% is fake/spam." /Uses this to count duplicates."
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