Elon Musk would lose 13.5 million Twitter followers if he takes over plan to get spam

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Elon Musk would lose 13.5 million Twitter followers if he takes over plan to get spam

Elon Musk would lose 13.5 million followers on Twitter if he takes over his plan to get rid of most spam accounts, according to data crunched by CodeClan, a Scottish digital skills academy.

The company, Tesla Inc. TSLA, gave up a legal battle and agreed to pay $44 billion to take over the social-media company. Musk wants less than 5% of the Twitter TWTR accounts to be spam.

According to the data, Musk's losses pale in comparison to singer Justin Bieber, who lost 27.6 million of his 114.2 million followers.

Britney Spears would lose the highest percentage of fake followers out of the top 20 with 48% of her 55.8 million followers classified as fakes.

Elon Musk says Twitter will eventually be part of X, the same thing that former President Barack Obama would lose by 19.3 million of his 131.9 million followers.

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The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has about 17.5 million fakes in his 78.8 million followers, which is equivalent to 22.2% of the total.

CNN Breaking News has more than 7.7 million fakes, or 12.2% of its 63.1 million followers. Bill Gates has over 14.3 million fakes, or 24.2% of his 58.9 million followers. NASA has some 14.7 million fakes, or 26.8% of its 57.1 million followers.

The price of Twitter was slightly lower before the market, while the price of Tesla was down 1.1%.

Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp. DWAC, the special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, bought the company behind the former President Donald Trump's Truth Social social-media company, which fell more than 5% Tuesday after it fell more than 5% in the wake of Musk's Twitter news.

The SPAC has fallen 67% in the year to date, while the S&P 500 SPX has fallen 20%.