Elon Musk doubles down on Twitter \u2018bot\u2019 problem after deal collapses Steve Jurvetson\/Wiki CommonsElon Musk shocked the world when he announced his 44-billion-dollar bid to buy Twitter back in April 2022, and then further amplified his own shockwaves after threatening to take the deal off the table if the social media giant couldn\u2019t meet his demands regarding the exact number of Twitter users are real people. On July 9, the billionaire CEO claimed that the deal was dead in the water, but Twitter Chairman Brett Taylor quickly responded and insisted the company will be pursuing a successful transaction even if it means taking involving Delaware\u2019s Court of Chancery. In the fallout of this news, Mr. Musk has been having some fun with the situation as he\u2019s known to do, insinuating that \u2018bot\u2019 accounts spell big trouble for the bird app. Elon Musk sticks to his guns over Twitter\u2019s \u2018bot account problem\u2019 While Elon first took to simply posting memes about the situation, including a bizarre image of Chuck Norris posing over a chessboard that he later captioned \u201cChuckmate\u201d, Elon also posted a more substantial offering in reply to another commenter. When Twitter WholeMarsBlog tweeted about how bots would theoretically impact Twitter\u2019s virtual ecosystem, it got the EM seal-of-approval. \u201cBots are not \u2018an excuse\u2019, they are a reality that Twitter users like me deal with every day,\u201d they said. \u201cIf advertisers think they\u2019ve been paying to advertise to humans, but instead they\u2019ve been advertising to robots\u2026 that\u2019s going to materially impact the advertising business adversely.\u201d \u201cAbsolutely,\u201d echoed Musk. Musk hasn\u2019t clearly stated exactly what he saw that caused him to back out of the deal other than it being user-population related, but he has shared another meme suggesting that he\u2019ll be the one with the last laugh if the company has to reveal those numbers in a courtroom. For now it seems like things have come to a standstill for the two parties, but we\u2019ll be sure to provide the latest updates as they happen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Elon Musk doubles down on Twitter \u2018bot\u2019 problem after deal collapses Steve Jurvetson\/Wiki CommonsElon Musk shocked the world when he announced his 44-billion-dollar bid to buy Twitter back in April 2022, and then further amplified his own shockwaves after threatening to take the deal off the table if the social media giant couldn\u2019t meet his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}