I am not an X user, I remember Elon making a lot of noise about bots, did Elon fixed the bot issues? Or all that noise was an attempt to get a discount.
I primarily follow entrepreneurial & fitness accounts.
Honestly X, youtube and HN satisfy just about everything I need for user generated content.
That’s some of the most disingenuous shit I’ve seen in a while.
Maybe you don’t realise they are bots?
Was he complaining about bots before he signed? Genuinely can't remember.
I can't google it for you, so from my memory , he complained that he was tricked by Twitter because a large number of users are bots , and then he promised that he will fix this issue after he get's the control. Probably bots and trolls are good for business since other social media like reddit are also making super easy to create tons of bot/troll accounts and spam the network.
How making a noise about it after the price is agreed be “an attempt to get a discount”? If anything, it was an attempt to get out of the deal.
(And if I remember correctly, the argument failed because he had been complaining about bots prior to signing. Either way, has nothing to do with discounts.)
The bot stuff was pretty transparently not a good faith argument from Musk; the real issue likely being more that the markets had gone down since the offer and what was already an overpay on day 1 was now a big overpay. The same dynamic made Twitter determined to keep the original offer: shareholders had basically demanded to take the offer to begin with, and with the down market (not to mention Musk himself publicly running the company down during his efforts to escape the deal) it was just that much more of a better deal than they could otherwise hope to get.
He signed the world's most iron-clad corporate acquisition contract you could for a price far above market rate right before the tech crash, and waived every single right to due-diligence which normal investors include, specifically for things like "oh what if the financials/users aren't what they seem?" or "what if the stock price substantially changes".
It was an utterly ludicrous agreement to sign (though far eclipsed by the the number of financial institutions which agreed to put up the money for it and are basically never going to get it back - though a bunch of the managers and executives losing their bonuses for it is kind of funny).
Citations: "Elon Musk says Twitter deal 'cannot move forward' until he has clarity on fake account numbers" [1]
"Musk was seeking information on essentially all of Twitter's account reviews and actions. Judge McCormick dubbed that request "absurdly broad," noting Twitter has already agreed to produce a "tremendous amount information.""[2]
[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/05/17/elo...
[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-scores-half-win-ab...
I guarantee this move is because too many people blocked Elon.