{"id":4422,"date":"2022-06-21T13:05:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T08:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=4422"},"modified":"2022-06-21T13:06:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T08:06:13","slug":"few-unresolved-matters-in-taking-over-twitter-wants-to-know-number-of-bots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/business\/few-unresolved-matters-in-taking-over-twitter-wants-to-know-number-of-bots\/","title":{"rendered":"Few unresolved matters in taking over Twitter says Elon Musk, wants to know number of bots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few \u201cunresolved matters\u201d about Twitter Inc, and he wanted to put the takeover \u201con hold\u201d while he investigated how many of Twitter\u2019s users are real people, said Elon Musk about his takeover of the social media giant. \u201cThere is the question of, will the debt portion of the round come together and then will the shareholders vote in favour,\u201d Musk told Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait at the Qatar Economic Forum in Doha.According to The Star Malaysia, Musk said that &#8216;twitter filed a formal letter with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in which he told Twitter executives he might walk away from the deal if the company didn\u2019t do more to prove the size of its user base.&#8217;Twitter responded by giving Musk access to its full fire hose of public tweets, though it\u2019s unclear if that data is truly helpful in calculating the number of bots on Twitter.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a few \u201cunresolved matters\u201d about Twitter Inc, and he wanted to put the takeover \u201con hold\u201d while he investigated how many of Twitter\u2019s users are real people, said Elon Musk about his takeover of the social media giant. \u201cThere is the question of, will the debt portion of the round come together and [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-4422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-sciencetech","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}