Elon Musk Responds To Twitter CEO's Explanation About Spam With Poop Emoji
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal attempted to explain how the platform deals with spam accounts on Monday — but Elon Musk, the social media network’s future owner, didn’t give a crap.
Though he did send a tweet with the poop emoji.
Last week, Musk announced that his deal to buy Twitter was “temporarily on hold” and said in a tweet that his “team” planned to study 100 randomly chosen Twitter profiles to determine their authenticity.
On Monday, Agrawal attempted to explain how spam affects the platform in a detailed 15-part tweet thread in order to explain how Musk’s plan might not be effective unless things were done internally.
Unfortunately, we don’t believe that this specific estimation can be performed externally, given the critical need to use both public and private information (which we can’t share). Externally, it’s not even possible to know which accounts are counted as mDAUs on any given day.
— Parag Agrawal (@paraga) May 16, 2022
Musk apparently thought that statement was crap. Literally, based on his mature, measured response.
💩
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 16, 2022
Musk was slightly more articulate in a follow-up tweet.
So how do advertisers know what they’re getting for their money? This is fundamental to the financial health of Twitter.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 16, 2022
So far, Agrawal hasn’t responded directly to either of Musk’s tweets, but many Twitter users felt compelled to offer their thoughts.
Remember when people thought this person was an important thought leader 💩 https://t.co/XY8k4JpSyn
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) May 16, 2022
Instead of getting @elonmusk’s thoughts on the Buffalo shooting and whether or not it would be allowed on this platform under his leadership, we get this: https://t.co/u1dNKpFngM
— Sleeping Giants (@slpng_giants) May 16, 2022
This is the equivalent to responding 'k' after getting a paragraph text https://t.co/945nysQ9Bv
— Market Rebellion (@MarketRebels) May 16, 2022
Elon figured out how to fix Twitter’s business.
Poop emoji the current CEO of Twitter & charge users to see it.
Cannot believe this shit is free. https://t.co/L7IyOsYwf0— Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) May 16, 2022
"The Equity Investor shall be permitted to issue Tweets about the Merger or the transactions contemplated hereby so long as such Tweets do not disparage the Company or any of its Representatives." https://t.co/dK48Fzy1yL
— Nathan Lawrence 🌈 (@NathanBLawrence) May 16, 2022
This is not free speech. It’s shit posting https://t.co/eeT7rnPWNC
— Reuben Goldberg (@RubyGold) May 16, 2022
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
