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. 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. “Even were Musk to secure access to the ‘firehose data’, it would be resource-intensive to review the data and may prove unsatisfactory to Musk. Fake or spam accounts, known as bot accounts, are automated and not run by human users.

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2022 15:39 UTC