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So, he could have got out of the deal if twitter breached a covenant, and one covenant had to do with data provision. By providing all the data requested, twit
by graeme 4y ago
So, he could have got out of the deal if twitter breached a covenant, and one covenant had to do with data provision.
By providing all the data requested, twitter just squashed that out.
He had no out on the bot claim itself, but his legal team was comfortable that the covenant breach was a colorable claim and wrote a letter. Now they need to think of a new legally plausible claim.
- coffeeblack 4y agoHow is the firehouse “all the data”? It’s just the posts. Probably the most useless part of the data if your goal is bot detection. But people seem to fall for it.
- hef19898 4y agoLet's assume Twitter and Musk are in deed playing this game here, then people and whether or not the data provided by Twitter is enough to detect bots is not the point. Whether or not the SEC, and courts at some point, see the shared data as sufficient for Twitter to fulfill transparency requirements is important.
- coffeeblack 4y agoCorrect, for the legal part of the purchase. But there is also a “public opinion” part, and that’s about politics. I have the impression that Tw is trying to at least remain in control until the upcoming elections.
- hef19898 4y agoOnly that public opinion so doesn't matter when it comes to the legal aspects of this. And this has nothing to do with elections whatsoever, just with a but hurt trying to buy Twitter out of spite.
- coffeeblack 4y agoIt’s not about the legal outcome, it’s about freedom of expression that many seem to be willing to sacrifice on the altar of ideologically fuelled hate.
- davedx 4y agoIt’s not just the posts, it has device data in it too
- graeme 4y agoMusk’s legal claim is incredibly flimsy. The legal battle will not be about whether it is all the data. Musk isn’t owed that. It’s about whether twitter is sufficiently responding to requests. Even without this the claim was very likely to fail. Hard to see it surviving this.
- pkphilip 4y agoThere is an incredible number of tweets being put out which are exact copies of each other - indicating that it is not actual human beings "manning" those accounts. If Musk has a way of running analysis on the data to do the following: 1. Level of duplicates. 2. Source of duplicates (who posts it first) 3. How often do they do that? 4. What is the political slant of these tweets 5. Which part of the world are the people tweeting from All of this alone will reveal very interesting information.. my guess is that it will prove that a lot of tweets are orchestrated.