{"id":7607,"date":"2022-05-16T09:06:47","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T09:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7607"},"modified":"2022-05-16T09:06:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T09:06:52","slug":"elon-twitter-buyout-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/?p=7607","title":{"rendered":"Elon Twitter Buyout on Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Elon Musk said Friday his Twitter buyout was temporarily on hold. The Tesla and Space X CEO plans to conduct his own research to determine the amount of Twitter users that are actually bots before his purchase of the social media company continues.Twitter said in a public filing this month less than 5% of users are fake or spam accounts.&#8221;To find out, my team will do a random sample of 100 followers of twitter,&#8221; Musk said in a tweet. He added that he &#8220;picked 100 as the sample size number, because that is what Twitter uses to calculate&#8221; its own estimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1011\" src=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220516_120252_030-1-1024x1011.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7609\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220516_120252_030-1-1024x1011.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220516_120252_030-1-980x967.jpg 980w, https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220516_120252_030-1-480x474.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk said Friday his Twitter buyout was temporarily on hold. The Tesla and Space X CEO plans to conduct his own research to determine the amount of Twitter users that are actually bots before his purchase of the social media company continues.Twitter said in a public filing this month less than 5% of users [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/IMG_20220516_120252_030.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7610,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7607\/revisions\/7610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getufm.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}