Elon Musk Bid for Twitter in Peril as He's Said to Distrust Bot Data

Bloomberg2022-07-08

Elon Mr Musk's proposed acquisition of Twitter may fall apart over his doubts that the company is accurately reporting the number of spam bots on the service, according to a report, even as company ...

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Long for long time
2022-07-09
Long for long time
It's good if musk moves away from twitterShares will skyrocket without him.
MalcolmAng
2022-07-08
MalcolmAng
Twitter CEO is sucking trumbs..., taking 1 billion free did not help Twitter, but only last the company for few quarter longer In this recession.
最爱黄霄云
2022-07-08
最爱黄霄云
Hahhhh
Jason_LSE
2022-07-08
Jason_LSE
Don't be distracted. Just walk away and Tesla share price will go up, accordingly.
_dachad
2022-07-08
_dachad
Why am I not surprised
Edwardtoh
2022-07-08
Edwardtoh
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