Elon Musk throws another Twitter takeover curveball



The Tesla founder and CEO tweeted overnight he needs Twitter to come clean on fake accounts before taking full ownership of the platform. #FOXBusiness

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43 comments

  1. Negotiating truth…

  2. I'm pretty sure that Twitter is the publicity ploy that Musk will expose…what a silly comment

  3. twitter has over 66% of fake accounts and bots. every bot account has over 1,000 other bot subscribe to that single one bot. plus all the fake accounts china created since 2014 to track their own people and people questioning about china's practices.

  4. Of course Elon believes the bots are there…. he doesn’t care about the cost. I don’t think you’re being fair to say it’s a negotiating ploy.

  5. Never had plans to buy Twitnerd. Destroyed the stock and made a laughing stock of Communist the Whip.

  6. Internet security coming soon!!! Soon you will be sending an ID for an online profile.

  7. What about the other platforms too… Watch for Bots….

  8. I was skeptical with my initial views of Elon. But I have to say, I'm a believer. For what he's done to Twitter, this man is a Legend. Amazing.

  9. People, you can NOT look at Twitter financial ahead of an offer. Think, please.

  10. Twitter stating 5% and lying to share holders is a huge crime. It could be multiple felonies. Twitter knows how many bots there are. Come on!!!

  11. Bull… Elon isnt playing a game… he's being reall

  12. Twitter is a fraud. I suspect other social media platforms run by elite libs are, too.

  13. 🪄💩🥳="Twitter"=💩🪄🥳
    Elon=🧠❤🤔😁🤣😎👍🇺🇸🙏!!!

  14. The same should be done with Facebook, for example.

  15. I think he'll pull it.

  16. This is all delicious news. The time has come that Americans will see Justice.

  17. You dork you don't hand over 44 billion with out knowing everything. Come on man

  18. Saying there is no way to check is crazy talk. Just take random sample of user and call them or send them postcard with money price if the send it back like facebook and google did

  19. It is primarily about exposing the "FRAUD". 50% of Biden's user base are fraudulent accounts.

  20. Remember when Musk said he was buying Twitter the Republicans said they were getting thousands of new followers since Musk’s announcement. They were bots. It is certainly shady how Musk now claims Twitter isn’t disclosing how many bots there are so he is stalling on buying it.

  21. Its true…
    There are many twitter fake accounts or redundant accounts

  22. Musk is exposing them publicly!!!! Epic!!!!

  23. Don't be puzzled by what he does….he's way smarter than most anyone!! He has a plan!! Relax

  24. Poop emoji!? Really? Doesn’t this let us know how childish we all actually are….just big kids taking themselves so seriously.

  25. The Trump cult isn't going to like this. 😂

  26. 2:39 what's with this lady's face? Who hired this woman as a "audience-facing" position?

    Puzzling… Not sure why her face elicits such a reaction from me, but it does. Very odd. Put this chick back on a desk job.

  27. Mr musk sale your stocks for a profit and buy land to make lumber and jobs for people in the forest with Tesla electric trailers for housing for the workers. ?

  28. Don't buy it , change your mind Mr musk , invest in making baby formula instead ?

  29. It's all corrupt Democrats .

  30. It's a good point about what advertisers would do it they find out that the real user base is much lower (if it's true). They could renegotiate terms or drop from the platform altogether.

  31. 2:52 Where did these clowns 🤡 come from. He had to make a real offer to get the tech nerds 🤓 to disclose anything!

  32. 2:10 It's clearly a Twitter lie! They know how many bots are on there! Nice try dude! No one believes you or your fake laugh!

  33. 1:06 This clown 🤡 doesn't know what he is talking about! His fake laugh is creepy! He's definitely a dummy if he thinks we believe his statement that Twitter can't confirm which accounts are fake! How did they get the 5 percent number to give to the SEC?

  34. Wait, I had over 1M and now I only have 23. Just when you thought you had friends. 🤣🤣

  35. May 22 Biden is giving the USA sovereignty to Who

  36. No one will touch Twitter at this stage and for any discount because Musk might or will open his own platform….maybe… if he walks away and probably collapse Twitter

  37. When people realize Elon Musk is nothing but a Con Artist., then the whole Tesla Fanboys will stop defending him. He likes to keep poking at different projects – when his own isn't all that perfect – ALL FOR ATTENTION – such as the Manchild he is.

    Let's not forget not too long ago he bashed BTC., meanwhile kept on pumping Dogecoin 'which ended up costing losses for his gullible tesla fan boys'

    Later claims were debunked – and he shut up.

    Now he's doing this to Twitter. HE priced it – and now he's giving Twitter a hard time [jepordizing the entire company and its workforce] as their stock has dropped.

    I hope he gets sued.

  38. twitter is definitely an east coast thing, ive never met someone thats been like, hmu on twitter. but for some reason everyone on tv will not stfu about it.

  39. Be the children of the new planet earth. Become the ones you have been waiting for. It is that simple. You are changing the world today. Just today. Not tomorrow, not the day after tomorrow, so don’t pat yourself on the back because you did a great thing last week. Last week doesn’t exist. Now is important. Now is all that matters.

  40. This lady with orange hair…OMG even after the bid Twitter did not want to disclose

  41. Poop emoji is so mature (/s). This might be a deal much lower, it might possibly also be grounds for a SEC investigation into stock manipulation by Elon.
    (and by the way, Twitter has challenged me for being a bot and I had to prove I was a real person.)