Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Elon Will Read the Tweets

June 9, 2022, 6:17 PM UTC

Twitter Stuff: Firehose

In the dumb theater of Elon Musk’s deal to buy Twitter Inc., this week Musk is pretending to want detailed information about how many of Twitter’s users are bots, and now Twitter is pretending to give it to him:

Twitter has agreed to share a vast trove of data about the content on its platform with Elon Musk, after the billionaire entrepreneur threatened to abandon his $44bn acquisition of the social media company if it did not provide more information about fake accounts and bots. ...

Twitter’s board plans to share the “firehose” of publicly available ...

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