Musk responds to Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's thread with a poop emoji

In a Twitter tete-a-tete that amused many on the social networking platform, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Monday made a “pile of poo” emoji in response to some insights on spam accounts posted by Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal.

This comes a month after Musk sealed a deal to buy the micro-blogging website.

In a long thread, Agrawal explained the process for detection of spam accounts: "Each human review is based on Twitter rules that define spam and platform manipulation, and uses both public and private data (eg, IP address, phone number, geolocation, client/browser sign­atures, what the account does when it’s active…) to make a determination on each account."

Musk says his deal to buy Twitter can’t move forward unless the company shows public proof that less than 5 per cent of the accounts on the social media platform are fake or spam.