Elon Musk Places Twitter Acquisition on Hold as Doubts Emerge Over its Userbase Data

Elon Musk in a late-Thursday tweet announced that he is placing his Twitter acquisition bid on “temporary hold” over doubts about the platform’s spam-bot data. Twitter, in a recent SEC regulatory filing, disclosed that spam bots made up less than 5% of its userbase. The filing revealed that Twitter has 229 million users that viewed consistent ads, while fewer than 5% of the “monetizable daily active users” were fake or spam-bot accounts. Financial analysts predict the substantial fall in cryprocurrency values, as well as a $400 billion drop in market-capitalization of the Tesla stock since Musk announced plans to buy Twitter, may have made the world’s richest man squeamish about buying Twitter, and that he is probably looking for a legally safe escape route from the deal. Twitter shares plummeted in value since the Musk tweet.