On May 17, Beijing time, according to people familiar with the matter, at a private meeting, musk hinted that reducing the purchase price of twitter might be an appropriate choice. He also argued with Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on the proportion of spam accounts every other time**
In early April, musk announced the news of holding twitter shares. Compared with the day before the news was released, now Twitter's share price has fallen, so some people doubt whether musk will buy twitter for $44 billion. Twitter's share price plunged 8% on Monday and its current market value is only $28.6 billion.
On Monday, Agrawal tweeted that the proportion of spam accounts on twitter platform was estimated to be less than 5% in the past four quarters. Before that, musk criticized the way twitter handled spam accounts, and Agrawal responded.
On Friday, musk revealed that the acquisition transaction had been suspended and he was waiting for information about the spam account. "For twitter advertisers, it's a basic question of how to spend money," Musk said
Shortly after tweeting, musk attended a conference in Miami, suggesting that robot accounts account for 20-25% of Twitter's total accounts.
Musk promised to adjust the twitter content audit mechanism. He thought it was too radical to permanently ban Trump's accounts. He also announced that he would crack down on spam robot accounts. Not only that, he also called for a random sample of Twitter users to be tested to see how many robot accounts there are. Twitter insists that spam accounts account for less than 5%, but musk says he hasn't seen any relevant analysis so far.
On Monday, musk even announced that spam accounts could account for more than 90% of Twitter's daily active users. Independent researchers estimate that 9-15% of twitter accounts may be robot accounts.