A bot is just an automated account that tweats for itself without a human sitting behind the keyboard. Twitter says less than five % of the active users on the platform are bots or fakeot. But elin mos tweeding over the week end about twitter predicting that the number of robots on twitter is much worse than people know. Lin says there's wey more bots on the platform than twitter is admitting to.
Last week, Elon Musk announced that he was pulling out of his $44 billion agreement to purchase Twitter. Today, we explore why a company that once tried to fend off this acquisition is now trying to force Mr. Musk to buy it.
Guest: Kate Conger, a technology reporter for The New York Times.
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