Twitter defends anti-bot efforts, Musk replies with poop emoji


Musk, who has said bots plague Twitter and that he would make getting rid of them a priority if he owned the platform, responded to that tweet by Agrawal with a poo emoji. — Reuters

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter’s chief on May 16 defended the messaging platform’s battle against “bots” that aspiring buyer Elon Musk says vex the platform, only to have the billionaire respond with a poo emoji.

The exchange played out in tweets as Musk’s US$44bil (RM193.38bil) buy of Twitter remained “temporarily on hold”, pending questions over the social media company’s estimates of the number of fake accounts, or “bots”.

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