Elon Musk says Twitter’s legal team told him he broke an NDA

Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory’s groundbreaking ceremony in Shanghai, China January 7, 2019. REUTERS / Aly Song

May 14 (Reuters) – Elon Musk tweeted on Saturday that the Twitter Incs (TWTR.N) legal team accused him of violating a confidentiality agreement by revealing that the sample size of the social media platform’s controls of automated users was 100.

“Twitter legal just called to complain that I violated their NDA by revealing that the sample size for the bot check is 100!” tweeted Musk, CEO of electric car maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O).

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He said his team would test “a random sample of 100 followers” on Twitter to identify the robots. His answer to a question led to Twitter’s accusation.

When a user asked Musk to “deepen the process of filtering bot accounts”, he replied: “I chose 100 as the sample size number, because that’s what Twitter uses to calculate <5% fake / spam / duplicate."

Reporting by Rachna Dhanrajani in Bengaluru; Edited by Cynthia Osterman and Richard Chang

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