Twitter said it removes 1 million spam accounts each day in a call with executives during a briefing on Thursday, aimed at shedding more light on the company’s fake and bot accounts as it Elon Musk on spam bots.
The CEO of Tesla, who has offered to buy Twitter for $44 billion, has threatened to walk away from the deal if the company can’t show that less than 5% of its daily active users have automated spam accounts. Will go away
Musk has argued, without offering evidence, that Twitter has underestimated the number of these spam bots — automated accounts that typically promote scams and misinformation on its service.
Twitter said on the call that spam accounts represent less than 5% of its active user base each quarter.
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Fake social media accounts have been a problem for years. Advertisers rely on the number of users provided by social media platforms to determine where they will spend the money. Spam bots are also used to amplify messages and spread misinformation.
Twitter and its investors are well aware of the problem of fake accounts. The company has disclosed its bot estimates to the US Securities and Exchange Commission for years, while also warning that its estimates may be too low.
Last month, Twitter offered Musk access to a firehose of raw data on his millions of daily tweets, according to multiple reports at the time, though neither the company nor Musk confirmed this.
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