Elon Musk confessed his annoyance with Twitter in a meeting with executives: “No one believes what the company says”

“Nobody believes what Twitter says” about bots, Elon Musk said in a meeting with executives of tech giants on Saturday.

One day after announcing the withdrawal of the purchase of the company for 44 billion dollars, the tycoon spoke with other executives at the Allen & Co Sun Valley Conference in Idaho.

Brian Stelter, chief media correspondent for CNN, released Musk’s position at the conference. “He tripled his decision to back out of the deal, and claims it’s because of the bots,” Stelter said in his report, via Twitter.

Musk’s statements even occurred in front of Twitter management, headed by CEO Parag Agrawal, present at the conference.

“Musk tripled his complaints about bots,” a source said, according to Stelter. “He essentially advanced the same argument that his attorneys made in the SEC filing.”

“No one believes in Twitter’s assessment that bots represent less than 5% of the total user base,” stressed the tycoon, always following what was stated by the CNN journalist.

The South African was in Sun Valley since Thursday, in a meeting that was also attended by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, Bob Iger and Warren Buffett, points out Business Insider.

The timeline of the crisis between Elon Musk and Twitter

In April, Musk had offered to buy Twitter at a price of 54.20 dollars per share, 44 billion dollars in total. He had already acquired about 9% of the company’s shares.

However, as the weeks passed, his complaints about the number of spam accounts on the platform grew. When company CEO Agrawal defended the handling of bots in May, Musk responded with a poop emoji.

Last Friday, Musk’s representation sent a letter to his Twitter pair to express that his client was desisting from the purchase. Bret Taylor, chairman of the Twitter board, said the company would take legal action to force the South African to complete the process.

“One potential outcome: years of litigation,” Brian Stelter predicts. Kara Swisher, on Meet the Press, added: “Nothing good is going to come out of this (for Twitter). Being in court against someone like Musk is not good for business, It’s not good for employee retention, it’s not good for the brand, the advertisers.”

“So it’s not good.”

We want to give thanks to the writer of this short article for this amazing content

Elon Musk confessed his annoyance with Twitter in a meeting with executives: “No one believes what the company says”