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Twitter defends anti-bot efforts, Musk replies with poo emoji

Financial analysts suspect that Elon Musk’s laments about automated ‘bots’ running Twitter accounts is a ploy to lower the price tag of the $44 billion deal or justify walking away.

SAN FRANCISCO – Twitter’s chief on Monday defended the messaging platform’s battle against “bots” that aspiring buyer Elon Musk says vex the platform, only to have the billionaire respond with a poo emoji.

The exchange played out in tweets as Musk’s $44 billion buy of Twitter remained “temporarily on hold,” pending questions over the social media company’s estimates of the number of fake accounts, or “bots.”

“It appears the spam/bot issue is cascading and clearly making the Twitter deal a confusing one,” Wedbush analyst Dan Ives said in a note to…

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