Remains non-committal on the buyout though, confirms Tesla lay-offs.
Musk, who offered to buy out Twitter in April, has himself put the deal on hold after pointing out concerns that the spam or fake account numbers on the platform are much higher than the company claims. Recently,
how the Twitter board wanted the company's shareholders to vote 'for the deal,' but the world's richest person has kept his options open to back out from the purchase. Speaking from the U.S. via videolink at the Qatar Economic Forum in the middle of the night, Musk said that he was awaiting resolution on a few"unresolved matters," including the precise number of bots on the platform.
Calling it a"sensitive matter," limiting what he could say about it publicly, Musk stated that the transaction couldn't be completed before the issue was cleared up. However, he did not completely endorse the deal either, raising speculation that he is using the bot numbers as an excuse toMusk looks keen to complete the buyout as he also laid out his vision of"driving the product" at Twitter, even though he did not plan to be the CEO of the company.
Musk even used the platform to reiterate his support for cryptocurrencies, even as the markets have seen some painful days in the past weeks. Musk said that he supports Dogecoin since many"not that wealthy" people around him have encouraged him to buy and support Dogecoin.He denied that he had ever asked people to invest in Dogecoin but said that Tesla and even his other company, SpaceX, will accept Dogecoin for purchasing merchandise.
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