Tesla boss Elon Musk has revealed that Twitter’s legal team accused him of breaching a non-disclosure agreement.<\/p>\n
The allegation was based on a revelation by Musk that Twitter’s sample size for checks on automated users was 100.<\/p>\n
“Twitter legal just called to complain that I violated their NDA by revealing the bot check sample size is 100! This actually happened,” Musk tweeted.<\/p>\n
Musk stated that the sample size that Twitter uses to verify bot users after announcing plans to suspend the company’s acquisition.<\/p>\n
“Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam\/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% users,” Musk tweeted.<\/p>\n
Following Musk’s revelations, the billionaire decided to launch his investigation to check Twitter’s position.<\/p>\n
“To find out, my team will do a ransom sample of 100 followers of @ twitter. I invite others to repeat the same process and see what they discover,” said Musk.<\/p>\n
When asked to explain the process, Musk noted, “Any sensible random sampling process is fine. If many people independently get similar results for % of fake\/spam\/duplicate accounts, that will be telling. I picked 100 as the sample size number because that is what Twitter uses to calculate >5% fake\/spam\/duplicate.”<\/p>\n