Twitter CEO says spam accounts are “well under 5%,” Musk responds

Twitter Inc (NASDAQ: TWTR) CEO Parag Agarwal tweeted on Monday that spam accounts on the social media platform for the last four quarters were "well under 5%," after Elon Musk put Twitter deal on hold.

“We suspend over half a million spam accounts every day, usually before any of you even see them on Twitter. We also lock millions of accounts each week that we suspect may be spam – if they can’t pass human verification challenges (captchas, phone verification, etc),” Agarwal tweeted.

Agarwal defends the social media platform after Musk puts the Twitter deal temporarily on hold saying the information on the number of fake accounts on the platform is still pending.

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