Elon
Musk commissioned OurCrowd portfolio company Cyabra to
find out the real numbers of Twitter’s spam and bot accounts as he negotiates
his on-off acquisition of the social media platform, CNN Business reports. The number of fake accounts is central
to the dispute over the $44B deal, with Musk saying Twitter underestimates the
problem. Cyabra’s research confirms Musk’s claim, showing that an estimated 11%
of its total user base is fake, compared to the 5% of “monetizable daily active
users,” claimed by Twitter... Cyabra CEO: “We have a number for all the social media platforms, because that’s our
job...”