Elon Musk warns 'bots are angry' as bid to buy Twitter on hold over fake account fears

The cast of A Strange Loop is taking over the stage at the 2022 Tony Awards!

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Sam Rockwell shows off some of his cool dance moves with host Ariana DeBose at the 2022 Tony Awards on Sunday (June 12) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

John Stamos is voicing his frustrations with the 2022 Tony Awards.

The cast of Spring Awakening reunited for a performance at the 2022 Tony Awards!

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Elon Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, attended the Sports Illustrated Launch party at the Hard Rock Hotel in Florida. The 74-year-old South African and Canadian model looked elegant with an outift that highlighted pastel colors.Grimes clears the record on her relationship with Elon MuskBillionaire Elon Musk claims he couch surfs among friends after girlfriend Grimes said he lives ‘below the poverty line’Musk wore a long silk dress that she paired with a coat with different shades of pastel colors.

Vangelis in Paris, France, at 79, Tesla founder Elon Musk decided to pay an emotional tribute to the “sweet maestro” known for his work in ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Chariots of Fire.’Vangelis, full name Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, died of heart failure, as it was confirmed by his assistant Lefteris Zermas. The Academy Award winner was recognized for his successful career, including ‘Alexander,’ ‘The Bounty,’ and ‘1492: Conquest of Paradise.’“Good night, sweet maestro, and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest,” Elon wrote following the sad announcement. Many of his fellow composers, musicians and friends also commented on the news, including ‘The Walking Dead’ composer Bear McCreary.“Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner were among the most innovative and influential scores in the history of the medium.

essay written by Elon Musk’s first wife during their messy divorce proceedings has drawn renewed attention this week after a flight attendant accused the billionaire of exposing himself during a trip on a private jet. Justine Musk, mother of the SpaceX executive’s five sons, wrote the essay in 2010 for Marie Claire magazine, describing how the couple’s love story eventually turned into a relationship in which she did not recognise herself. She described “warning signs,” even on the night they were married.

Billionaire Elon Musk took to Twitter late on Thursday to denounce as “utterly untrue” claims in a news report that he had sexually harassed a flight attendant on a private jet in 2016.

There is a new allegation against Elon Musk.

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's private jet with 'complete' accuracy.19-year-old Jack Sweeney, a computer science student from Florida, said yesterday that his 'ZuccJet' Twitter is now "completely accurate" after discovering Mark Zuckerberg's personal private jet, which he shared a photo of on Twitter.The automated Twitter account shares the whereabouts, journey length, and even the amount of carbon emissions of each flight taken by Zuckerberg. That means Jack is now tracking some of the most powerful people in the world, from Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk to Putin and, now, the Facebook founder / Meta CEO.Jack first made a name for himself earlier this year following a public spat with SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, who offered Jack £3,700 ($5000) to take down his 'ElonJet' tracker page.

Maye Musk, the mother of billionaire Tesla owner Elon Musk, is quite the celebrity herself. The 74-year-old has a long career in modeling and this year she is making history as one of selected women to be featured in the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit.

Twitter over the number of fake and spam accounts on the social media platform could be putting Elon Musk's $44bn buy-out at risk.Elon tweeted that the deal "cannot move forward" unless Twitter backed up its claims that less than 5% of accounts are fake or spam accounts. Twitter's boss, Parag Agrawal, has previously defended the firm's estimates on spam accounts to which Mr Musk responded with a poo emoji, later repeating his claim that Twitter was underestimating the figure.Analysts have speculated that Mr Musk may be looking for ways to renegotiate the price of the deal or walk away after he said he could seek a lower price for Twitter at a tech conference.He agreed the $44bn (£34.5bn) deal to buy Twitter with its board in April, but last week Mr Musk said the deal was "on hold" while he sought details about fake accounts.On Tuesday, Mr Musk tweeted that his offer for the firm was based on Twitter's disclosures to regulators about fake accounts "being accurate".Mr Musk said Twitter boss Parag Agrawal had "publicly refused to show proof" that fewer than 5% of its accounts were fake, and said the deal "cannot move forward" until Mr Agrawal does show proof.Mr Musk's tweet then appeared to be deleted.The billionaire, who also runs carmaker Tesla, has put the number of fake accounts at 20% or more.Mr Agrawal defended the firm's count, saying he would discuss the issue "with the benefit of data, facts, and context".He said the company used a combination of public and private data to determine which accounts were real, reviewing random samples every few months.

Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can't move forward unless the company shows public proof that less than five percent of the accounts on the social media platform are fake or spam.Musk made the comment in a reply to another user on Twitter early Tuesday. He spent much of the previous day in a back-and-forth with Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who posted a series of tweets explaining his company's effort to fight bots and how it has consistently estimated that less than five percent of Twitter accounts are fake.In his tweet Tuesday, Musk said that «Twenty percent fake/spam accounts, while four times what Twitter claims, could be much higher.

Elon Musk said overnight that his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter can’t move ahead unless the company backs up statements about the number of fake accounts on the platform, which the company has put at under 5%.

 Amber Heard, 36, met billionaire Elon Musk, 50, and believed him to be a “real gentleman” after her ex-husband Johnny Depp, 58, “stood her up” on the red carpet, the court heard.The actress took to the stand yesterday for a third day of testimony in the highly-publicised multi-million-dollar defamation trial after a one-week hiatus.Amber claimed she began conversing with Tesla founder Elon on the red carpet at the Met Gala event, which was held in New York City on May 2, 2016.The actress told the court in Fairfax, Virginia yesterday that she and her then-husband Johnny had planned to attend the event together as guests of Ralph Lauren.However, the court heard how Johnny “stood her up” on the red carpet, giving Amber the opportunity to meet “real gentleman” Elon.The Met Gala came not long after Amber’s 30th birthday - a time in which Amber said she was “attacked” by her ex Johnny.The Aquaman actress went on to tell the court she was unable to find out if Johnny would still be joining her at the event.She claimed this was because she didn’t have a phone at the time thanks to Johnny throwing it out of the window.Amber told the court: “I wasn’t sure what was going on or when he would show up or if he would show up.“I had no way of knowing,” she added.The court heard that Amber walked the red carpet by herself and “sat next to an empty place setting for Johnny” after he “effectively stood her up on the carpet”.She went on to describe how she had met Elon whilst walking the red carpet alone.Amber told the court that the Tesla founder was “a gentleman” and that he had attended the event with his mother.“I was standing in line right in front of a gentleman. It was Elon,” she said.“I didn’t recognise him at first.

Elon Musk might now be one of the richest men in the world, but his confrontational approach to business once led to Russians spitting on his shoes, an associate has claimed.Musk recently attracted attention with an attempt to buy Twitter, which he revealed is on hold until more research has been conducted into the amount of “bot” accounts on the site.Before trying to organise the purchase of the social media giant, Elon had set his sights on colonising Mars, and launched the SpaceX agency, which has so far taken celebrities including William Shatner into orbit.Now, a Channel 4 documentary, Elon Musk: Superhero or Supervillain, airing tonight (May 16) at 9pm has suggested that the controversial entrepreneur was rattling heads even before he developed his world-famous status.Jim Cantrell, the co-founder of SpaceX, described how Elon had called him on a hot day in July 2001 with the ambition of a space exploration company.“He went on about humanity being a multiplanetary species and that he wanted to prove that humans could go to Mars, and that he couldn’t afford US rockets, and he had heard that I was somebody who could connect him with buying Russian rockets,” he recalled.

Elon Musk said Friday that his planned $44 billion purchase of Twitter is «temporarily on hold» pending details on spam and fake accounts on the social media platform, another twist amid signs of internal turmoil over the proposed acquisition.In a tweet, the Tesla billionaire linked to a Reuters story from May 2 citing a financial filing from Twitter that estimated false or spam accounts made up fewer than 5% of the company's «monetizable daily active users» in the first quarter.«Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,» Musk said, indicating he's skeptical that the number of inauthentic accounts is that low.A short time later on Friday morning, Musk tweeted that he remains committed to the purchase. Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuynIt wasn't clear whether the issue could scuttle the deal. Shares of both Twitter and Tesla swung sharply in opposite directions, with Twitter's stock tumbling 17% to $37.20 before trading opened in the U.S, and Tesla, which Musk had proposed using to help fund the Twitter deal, jumping 5%.

Naman Ramachandran The Twitter deal is temporarily on hold, billionaire Elon Musk posted on Friday.“Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” Musk posted on Twitter.Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of usershttps://t.co/Y2t0QMuuyn— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2022In the tweet, Musk provided a link to a May 2 Reuters article quoting Twitter’s filing on Monday. “Twitter Inc estimated in a filing on Monday that false or spam accounts represented fewer than 5% of its monetizable daily active users during the first quarter,” the Reuters piece said.Musk has been vocal about cleaning the platform of spam bots.