In a filing, Musk’s lawyers said Twitter failed or refused to respond to multiple requests for information about fake or spammy accounts on the platform, which is fundamental to the company’s business performance. Shares of Twitter fell 6% in extended trading. Tesla CEO Mr Musk had threatened to stop the deal unless the company proved that spam and bot accounts accounted for less than 5% of users seeing ads on the social networking service. Last month, Twitter allowed Musk access to its “firehose,” a repository of raw data on hundreds of millions of daily tweets. This is a spastic story. More to come…
