, it is willing to give Musk access to every tweet posted daily, alongside granular user information, in order to allow him to look for inauthentic behavior. Twitter’s apparent willingness to grant Musk access to the datastream comes days after the suitor’s lawyers sentto the company saying it was “actively resisting and thwarting [Musk’s] information rights,” and threatening to pull out of the deal.
The reported shift to grant Musk access to the data is significant, and it raises two key questions: One, will Musk get what he wants from the data he’s been given? And two: What does him gaining access mean for everyday users’ privacy and security? For Axel Bruns, professor at Queensland University of Technology, the move is Twitter calling Musk’s bluff. “By giving him access to the fire hose, Twitter can presumably say, ‘Prove your claims about the abundance of bots, then,’” he says. Bruns believes that Musk and whoever he employs to track down bots would have a difficult time. But even for someone with the requisite skills to handle that level of data, it’s unlikely to be the right method to answer the question.
Being able to pinpoint what makes a bot a bot has been a hotly debated subject in the field of academia, one that experts have devoted much of their working lives to—which is why they’re skeptical that access to all the tweets posted to Twitter will answer the bot question definitively enough to convince Musk to go ahead with the purchase. “My impression is that people tend to overestimate how easy it is to detect bots,” says Leerssen.
Giving Musk access to the fire hose of tweets is a relatively innocuous move, says Christopher Bouzy, the founder of Bot Sentinel, a service that tracks inauthentic behavior on Twitter. “It doesn’t expose users’ private data,” he says. “It’s just a stream of tweets.
Hey TwitterSafety Twitter TwitterSupport TwitterSecurity I never agreed to you releasing any of my Tweets or user data to Elon Musk or anyone else!! If you are doing this then you need to provide an opt-in or opt-out form first. WTAF!!!
Why? He has no idea what to do with it.
One of the dumber questions. Why more risky in Musk's hands than at hacked Twitter
Oh my god. Heaven forbid that somone looks into fixing something!
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Aeton Husk
Oh no, marketers will know that all I do is bitch about video games, whatever shall I do?!
Who cares
It's really funny how many of us got temp suspensions yesterday right before the show trial. If I was a conspiracy nut I'd blame Elon and his groyper incel nazi fanbase.
Dr. Strange 3
with a dickface like in the preview we are done.
Oh stop it.
Oh the tin foil hat brigade isn’t going to be down for this when he also makes good on making sure people put in their real identities.
Yep
Why would he want it now that he has what he wants - why buy the cow when you get the milk for nothing.
That's hilarious... You're telling me that they had all this data when Twitter was being so sketchy that Musk brought it for (checks notes) 'I really don't expect to make money on it, but they seemed sketchy' reasons... Then you were like, now he has the data they already had...
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