In reversal, Twitter plans to comply with Musk’s demands for data

Washington Post ^ | June 8th, 2022 | Elizabeth Dwoskin

[shadowlands1960]

The billionaire is in a protracted battle with the company over information about spam and fake accounts.

After a weeks-long impasse, Twitter’s board plans to comply with Elon Musk’s demands for internal data by offering access to its full “firehose,” the massive stream of data comprising more than 500 million tweets posted each day, according to a person familiar with the company’s thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe the state of negotiations.

The move aims to end a standoff with the billionaire, who has threatened to pull out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter unless the company provides access to data he says is necessary to evaluate the number of fake users on the platform.

The information could be provided as soon as this week, the person said. Currently some two dozen companies pay for access to the trove, which comprises not only a real-time record of tweets but the devices they tweet from, as well as information about the accounts that tweet.

[catnipman]

better link without kommie paywall

https://www.breitbart.com/news/twitter-to-share-data-at-heart-of-musk-deal-dispute-report/

[Pollard]

He just needs a sampling of accounts. They provided a sampling already but it was too tiny to be accurate. 100 accounts irrc.

Would be easy enough to do 10,000 accounts and see what percentage are bots.

[V_TWIN]

“the firehose will have raw data”

And that can’t be manipulated I guess?....like I said, im a low tech moron.

[epluribus_2]

or maybe ClownStrike and Perkins Coie teams will be providing Elon with a “management summary” of the raw data he originally requested. All FTC and financials firms would be fully supportive of this approach. /sarc

[Reddy]

Just anecdotally, Twatter replies have gotten quite a bit more conservative since Musk began the process. IMO.

[Observator]

Ask anyone who has participated in corporate M&A, it’s a game of “you bet your job” whenever you make recommendations to top management about a target company, and they are relying on YOU, not on what you have been given.

Good post. Not to mention the certainty of a long jail sentence for falsifying the data to close a transaction like this.