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.
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.
And this has nothing to do with elections whatsoever, just with a but hurt trying to buy Twitter out of spite.
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.
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.
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.