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Billionaire Elon Musk blasted Twitter for not being forthcoming about its variety of actual customers, calling the dearth of clarification “very suspicious.”

Musk threw one other caveat into his bid to buy Twitter on Saturday, suggesting that the value be adjusted primarily based on the share of pretend accounts on the social media platform.

Conservative commentator Ian Miles Cheong posed the thought of reducing the Twitter buy value: “If 25% of the customers are bots then the Twitter acquisition deal ought to price 25% much less.”

“Completely,” Musk responded.

When requested if Twitter had revealed “what number of actual lively customers” the platform had, Musk known as out the social media platform’s tight-lipped stance.

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Final week, Musk introduced he would place his bid to take over Twitter on maintain, tweeting that his money buyout provide for Twitter was primarily based on the corporate’s filings with the Securities and Trade Fee on the variety of pretend or spam accounts on the platform “being correct.”

Musk has requested Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to “present proof” that the spam or pretend accounts are in reality lower than 5%, as beforehand disclosed.

Musk mentioned he anticipated the variety of pretend accounts to be “a lot increased.”

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A 25% discount of Musk’s $44 billion deal to purchase Twitter would decrease the acquisition value to $33 billion and the value per share from $54.20 to $40.65.