Entrepreneur Elon Musk, who has agreed with the company to acquire social media giant Twitter, has indicated that it may reduce the purchase price by more than 5 trillion yen in Japanese yen, Bloomberg said on the 16th. I did.
Elon Musk, the CEO of electric car maker Tesla and the world's richest man, agreed last month to buy Twitter for more than 5 trillion yen in Japanese yen, but Twitter is 5 We are temporarily suspending the acquisition process to confirm the number of fake accounts etc. that are described as less than%.
According to Bloomberg of the United States, Mr. Musk attended an event in southern Florida on the 16th, saying that at least 20% of Twitter accounts are fake accounts.
On top of that, if the number of actual users is small, the corporate value may decrease, so he said that it was "not impossible" to reduce the purchase price, suggesting the possibility of reducing it.
On the other hand, Twitter CEO Agrawal wrote in his Twitter post that fake accounts are estimated from phone numbers, location information, IP addresses, etc., and "It is necessary to use both public information and private information. I don't think it can be estimated outside the company because of this, "he countered Mr. Musk's claim.
The acquisition is said to be completed in the meantime, but Mr. Musk seems to be shaking the company in search of more favorable conditions, and it will be watched whether it will actually lead to a reduction in the purchase price.