Elon Musk says Twitter accused him of violating NDA

In the ongoing tweet controversy central to the takeover of Twitter (NYSE:TWTR), Elon Musk states he is now the target of the social media firm’s authorized crew.

“Twitter lawful just termed to complain that I violated their (non-disclosure settlement) by revealing the bot check sample dimension is 100!” Musk tweeted. “This essentially transpired.”

That tweet came as portion of the thread to the original tweet Friday in which the Tesla (TSLA) founder stated that his $44B takeover deal for Twitter (TWTR) was on maintain.

That tweet sent Twitter (TWTR) shares down practically 10%.

It also lifted a great offer of speculation about Musk’s wish to close the deal (he says he is even now fully commited), him angling for a better value and his capacity to finance it offered the new slide in Tesla shares.

Musk attributed the pause to his require to examine on the firm’s estimate that spam bot and faux accounts accounted for 5% of monetizable day by day lively end users.

In response to his authentic tweet, Musk replied: “To obtain out, my group will do a random sample of 100 followers of @twitter. I invite other people to repeat the exact same process and see what they find out …”

When questioned by a user if he didn’t think about this in advance of he manufactured his $54.20 bid, Musk mentioned: “I relied upon the accuracy of Twitter’s public filings.”

“Any smart random sampling approach is good,” he reported. “If numerous persons independently get equivalent effects for % of pretend/spam/replicate accounts, that will be telling. I picked 100 as the sample size quantity, due to the fact that is what Twitter employs to compute <5% fake/spam/duplicate."

After that he said Twitter legal contacted him.

Musk’s latest and now-pinned tweet is:

“Very important to fix your Twitter feed:

1. Tap home button.

2. Tap stars on upper right of screen.

3. Select “Latest tweets”.

You are being manipulated by the algorithm in ways you don’t realize. Easy to switch back & forth to see the difference.”

His next reply: “(This message brought to you by the Illuminaughty)”