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Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by glenngillen on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:40AM (#31690117)
As with many financial market things, Matt Levine’s summaries are great on this. Twitter has been reporting these numbers for many, many years now. The public market has accepted them for many, many years. Elon has been complaining about the bots for maybe as long.

So nothing has changed between Musk making the binding offer and today with regards to bots. He has not suddenly been surprised about some discovery. This is not something that materially changes what he thought Twitter was worth. It’s just another game to distract people.

Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by kmonsen on Friday June 10, 2022 @12:53AM (#31690198)
And also that Elon clearly no longer wants to buy Twitter,at least for the price he proposed, so this is just him trying to find a way out.

This is going to end horribly for Twitter and some sort of slapp on the wrist for Elon.

Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by glenngillen on Friday June 10, 2022 @02:43AM (#31690841)
He’s managed to get to almost cartoonish levels of disregard for the rule of law. Skilfully deploying them to his advantage when needed, but ignoring completely when they’re inconvenient. All seemingly in the knowledge that he’s now beyond any enforcement.
Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by invig on Friday June 10, 2022 @01:14AM (#31690317)
How is that clear? Has he said it?
Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by shuckles on Friday June 10, 2022 @01:23AM (#31690361)
He's said the deal was off unless he's convinced by Twitter's bot numbers [1], which isn't a condition of the deal, so, yeah basically he's said he doesn't want to buy.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526465624326782976

Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by invig on Friday June 10, 2022 @01:29AM (#31690397)
That's not what that Tweet says.
Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by shuckles on Friday June 10, 2022 @01:34AM (#31690438)
The tweet says he's not moving forward on the deal unless Twitter provides evidence that their monetizable user metric, which is not an estimate of bots, is accurate. Producing that evidence is not a contingency in the deal, so Elon is threatening to fail to perform, i.e. he doesn't want to buy Twitter under the negotiated terms.
Re:Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data by invig on Thursday June 16, 2022 @07:36PM (#31772302)
He said: "My offer was based on Twitter’s SEC filings being accurate." Which is a valid statement, SEC filings are _required_ to be accurate.

And you've interpreted: "Producing that evidence is not a contingency in the deal". Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

He never said he didn't want to buy it under the negotiated terms, he said he wants to be able to _verify_ that what the company says is accurate.