In a hearing, Twitter says Elon Musk's consultants estimated spam accounts at 5%-11% of users and Musk didn't share Signal texts, including with Marc Andreessen
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@silvermanjacob
@silvermanjacob
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Musk's phone(s) probably has some interesting messages on it. Not sure why he'd land himself in a discovery situation https://twitter.com/...
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@marypcbuk
Mary Branscombe
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Well, to be fair, maybe the thin-skinned VCs had them blocked like they do half the rest of us https://twitter.com/...
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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Twitter has never said spammers/bots are 5% of users. They've said people who look at ads are less than 5% bots. They could have 99% of tweets be spam and 99% of followers be bots which wouldn't matter since that's not the claim. mDAU is just about users viewing ads. That's it. h…
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@carnage4life
Dare Obasanjo
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Dude is in a court of law trying to win a case like it's the court of public opinion among his Twitter followers.
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@niubi
Bill Bishop
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“Twitter accused Musk's team of failing to hand over relevant Signal messages and denying that Musk used the encrypted messaging app, citing evidence of an exchange with investor Marc Andreessen in April” this will help with the judge... https://twitter.com/...
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@niubi
Bill Bishop
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Twitter says Musk's own data scientists did not back up bots claims https://www.ft.com/... “The exchange was only revealed after a screenshot of it had been sent by Andreessen to others via email” screenshotting signal conversations