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• Twitter reiterated spam accounts were well under 5% and have been unchanged since 2013
Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR) on Thursday said the social media company is removing more than 1 million spam accounts each day, as billionaire Elon Musk has demanded more details regarding fake accounts.
The comment comes after Musk threatened to halt the $44 billion deal to buy Twitter unless the company showed proof that spam and bot accounts were fewer than 5% of users.
Musk previously tweeted that one of his biggest priorities after acquiring Twitter is to "defeat the spam bots or die trying."
On a conference call, the company executives reiterated that spam accounts were well under 5% of the total users who are shown advertisements, a figure that has been unchanged in its public filings since 2013.
Twitter said human reviewers manually examine thousands of Twitter accounts randomly and use a combination of public and private data to calculate and report to shareholders the proportion of spam and bot accounts on the service.
It also said that the social media company does not believe that the calculation of such accounts could be performed externally because it would require private information.
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