Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, said on twitter today that 100 twitter fans would be randomly sampled to verify whether Twitter's spam or false accounts account accounted for less than 5% of the total number of users He also said he would invite others to do the same to see what they would find.
Yesterday, musk tweeted that the plan to acquire twitter would be put on hold until more details were disclosed that spam or false accounts accounted for less than 5% of the total number of users of the platform.
As soon as the news came out, Twitter's share price plunged 20% before the US stock market. Subsequently, musk later wrote that he was still committed to acquiring twitter.
According to reports, Twitter has said that false or spam accounts accounted for less than 5% of users in the first quarter.