Yes they knew, and they've been saying so for ages. They disclose it in their SEC reports. It doesn't matter.

What matters is that Elon has a bad time when he goes on Twitter because he is bombarded by bots and spam.

If there were only 3 bots on Twitter, they would all be bombarding Elon. If there were no bots on Twitter, he would still be bombarded by spam.

I guess you can't really use "I'm tired of my personal experience being terrible on Twitter" to raise money to buy Twitter, or to keep your fanboys engaged, or whatever Elon is thinking.

Personally, I think "I'm tired of my personal experience being terrible on Twitter" would have been a very honest way for him to approach the whole matter.

I also think that it is very natural for people to feel a threat or emotion or anger and then pin that on an external actor or actors, when it's something that they feel inside themselves.

It seems to me that he could've, as a board member, said loudly (and publicly!) that the experience for high-follower, highly active accounts sucks, and they would've had to listen

Yea, I really don't understand. I think maybe you have to be a billionaire to get it.

I wonder how many other billionaires are sitting around trying to figure this out, why he went so big and flashy

after he complained about his access to their API, they additionally provided him with access to their Firehose, which is essentially a stream of all their data

what did musk's filing say about that? any complaints?