Elon Musk puts on hold S$61b deal for Twitter, shares slump

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BENGALURU - Mr Elon Musk on Friday put his US$44 billion deal for Twitter Inc temporarily on hold, citing pending details in support of calculation that spam and fake accounts indeed represent less

than 5 per cent of users.

Twitter had earlier this month estimated that false or spam accounts represented fewer than 5 pre cent of its monetisable daily active users during the first quarter, when it recorded 229 million users who were served advertising. Mr Musk, the world's richest man and a self-proclaimed free speech absolutist, had said that one of his priorities would be to remove"spam bots" from the platform.

 

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