Doubt about spam accounts may hit Twitter deal: Musk

Elon Musk said that his purchase of Twitter would not go ahead unless he was given assurances on the bots he says plague the platform, further complicating his acrimonious bid for the social media giant. Seen by his champions as an iconoclastic genius and by his critics as erratic and power-hungry, Musk surprised many investors in April with news that he wanted to purchase Twitter. But his $44 billion bid for the company is now “temporarily on hold”, pending questions over its estimates of the number of fake accounts, or bots. “Yesterday, Twitter’s CEO publicly refused to show proof of <5%,” tweeted Musk.