Elon Musk previously announced his decision to buy the social network Twitter for $44 billion. But last week it abruptly announced that it was pausing the deal.

Why? He believes that there are too many bots on the social network. According to the richest man on the planet, he was initially promised on Twitter that no more than 5% of them would be. However, according to Mr. Musk, there is much more – as much as 90%.

Elon Musk explained it this way. Twitter management provided him with data on 5% of bots in hundreds of selected account samples. And this is an extremely weak example. Meanwhile, Twitter immediately reacted, accusing Ilona Mask of revealing a trade secret.

And yesterday, the founder of Tesla and SpaceX suggested that more than 90% of popular network users have bot and spam accounts. How did you come to this conclusion? The fact that the most popular tweets are social. only 2% of active users are registered to the network.

However, experts suggest that Elon Musk is trying to lower the price of Twitter in this way. After his tenure, social network shares fell by 25%.