Twitter set to comply with Elon Musk demand for data on fake accounts

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

Twitter set to comply with Elon Musk demand for data on fake accounts

Network ready to provide stream of daily data after world’s richest man threatened to pull out of $44bn purchase if Twitter refused

Dan Milmo Global technology editor
Wed 8 Jun 2022 22.02 BST

Twitter is preparing to comply with Elon Musk’s demand for data on fake accounts, after the Tesla chief executive threatened to walk away from buying the business if it refused.

The social media company will provide the world’s richest man with access to a stream of data comprising more than 500 million tweets posted every day, according to the Washington Post.

The New York Times also reported that Twitter would let Musk view its “firehose” of daily traffic, in response to legal threats that the deal would be in jeopardy otherwise.

Musk warned Twitter on Monday that he might walk away from his $44bn deal to acquire the company if it fails to provide the data on spam and fake accounts that he seeks. The multibillionaire has expressed doubts over Twitter’s claim that fake and spam accounts represent less than 5% of its 229 million-strong user base.

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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/08/twitter-elon-musk-data-demand-fake-accounts

[msongs]

1. so twitter users will have their posts turned over to a fascist. is this karma?

[PoliticAverse]

4. There's a reason they're called "posts". n/t

[Dorian Gray]

7. THey're public

aren't they?

Musk is dumb and is desperately trying to get out of this deal bc it STINKS for him, but we all post publicly on twitter.

[Catherine Vincent]

2. So what will happen now?

Is it still a possibility he can purchase Twitter?

[FBaggins]

3. Can't see that they have much choice

I would find it hard to believe that an agreement to purchase a company of that size did not have a clause giving the purchaser access to information that verifies anything that was relied upon in pricing the deal.

[wryter2000]

5. Ah, shit

I so hoped this was over.

[Lettuce Be]

6. It won't satisfy him. He's a child

They should not have caved. The law was on their side -- due diligence is done before the deal is signed, not after. He's tanked the value of Twitter and Tesla -- no doubt he's got "friends" trading on his BS. I think he should not be allowed to own any stock he talks about on Twitter, period. He's manipulating the markets, not to mention really F'g with stock owners of either company.