The Twitter board has finally given up, according to Washington Postand now plans to give Elon Musk access to the mountains of data needed to answer his questions about the number of fake accounts.
On Monday, the Tesla boss threatened in an official document to withdraw his offer to acquire the social network that, according to him, actively resistant in its requests for information on spamming and fake accounts, which were denied by the platform.
But the Californian group council should provide the multi-billionaire a flood of data consisting of approximately 500 million tweets published each dayprobably as early as this week, according to an article in the American daily published on Wednesday.
The Washington Post this information is based on an unknown source familiar with the negotiations. Contacted by AFP, Twitter declined to comment.
Elon Musk filed an offer to buy Twitter in April for 44 billion US dollars (55 billion Canadian dollars), after many turns and turns, from his entry into the capital without warning to a series of very critical messages from on social networks.
A transaction with winding
In mid -May, he announced that he had suspended the agreement with the council, before re -confirming his intention to buy the platform, expressing his doubts about the data Twitter sent to spam and fake accounts, as well as steps taken. its proliferation.
The buy-back agreement obliges the trader to complete the transaction, unless he can prove that the social network cheated him or that a major event changes his value.
Both parties have agreed to pay a severance fee of up to US $ 1 billion (C $ 1.15 billion) in certain situations.
Twitter estimates that the number of fake accounts and spam on the social network represents less than 5% of its daily active users.
But Elon Musk said the platform approach is not enough and he must carry out his self -examination.
If the Board of Directors gives him or her access to all information, this will end the great stalematecomment by analyst Dan Ives on Twitter.
On the New York Stock Exchange, Twitter’s stock hit US $ 40 (C $ 50.22) on Wednesday, far from the US $ 54.20 (C $ 68) price offered by the world’s richest man in April.
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