Would-be Twitter buyer Elon Musk has spent weeks now speculating that Twitter is lying about the number of spam and bot users on its platform. Now Twitter has actually agreed to give Musk the data he so craves, along with data on the other 500 million or so tweets posted to the social network each day.
The data stream, which Twitter refers to as its “firehose,” could be handed over as soon as this week, according to an anonymous source who spoke to The Washington Post. The firehose is aptly named: it’s a real-time record of every tweet ever sent, along with information on the devices those tweets are sent from and information about the accounts that send them.
