Twitter just gave Elon Musk its firehose and sent him looking for bots
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What you need to know Twitter has given Elon Musk access to its firehose. The firehose equates to 500 million tweets per day. Musk doesn`t think Twitter`s claimed 5% of accounts being bots is accurate. Twitter has given Elon Musk access to all the tweets in the world so he can look for bots. Elon Musk`s buyout of Twitter just took another new turn after the social network gave him unfettered access to its firehose of tweets. That`s 500 million new tweets per day, with Musk now set to sift through them all as he tried to work out how many accounts are run by bots. Musk`s $44 billion buyout of Twitter has been on the rocks since he claimed the company`s bot numbers were too low, apparently of the belief that the social network`s reported 5% figure is wrong. Now, he has all the information he needs to confirm his belief, according to a Washington Post report — but it`s debatable whether he can actually do anything with it. After a weeks-long impasse, Twitter`s board plans to...