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Why Elon Musk tweeted a poop emoji to CEO Parag Agrawal

Twitter has estimated that spam, fake accounts make up less than 5% of the social media platform's users

Updated: May 17, 2022 03:20

EJ Biz Desk

In the newest 'Twitter Tales' Elon Musk sent Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal a poop emoji after the social media executive said it would be difficult to conduct an external review to determine the percentage of spam and fake accounts on the platform.

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Musk was clearly unimpressed as Parag Agrawal hit back at the billionaire about the handling of bots on Twitter. Agrawal tweeted that spam “harms the experience for real people on Twitter” and that the company is “strongly incentivized to detect and remove as much spam as we possibly can, every single day.”

“Anyone who suggests otherwise is just wrong,” Agrawal tweeted.

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In a quick and expressive response Musk the largest shareholder in Twitter sent back a poop emoji and followed it up with a question on how advertisers know they are getting their money's worth?

Elon Musk who is looking to take over Twitter has vowed to put an end to the 'bot army' on the platform. Twitter has previously estimated that spam and fake accounts make up less than 5% of users on the platform.