Musk's lawyers sent Microsoft a letter accusing the company of improperly using Twitter data. It's coincidental that this comes exactly one month after Microsoft Ads dropped Twitter, and this has nothing to do with anyone's feelings.
The charge comes in a letter addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, sent by Alex Spiro, one of Musk’s personal attorneys. “As you are no doubt aware, for years, Microsoft has used Twitter’s standard developer APIs free of charge in order to benefit from Twitter’s data and services in key Microsoft products that generate tens of billions of dollars in revenue for Microsoft annually,” Spiro wrote.
Twitter is a platform, which means it hopes that other people will build apps and other cool stuff on top of it. To encourage that, Twitter provides an “application programming interface,” or API, a tool that lets computer programs talk to each other and exchange data. Other social media companies like Facebook and TikTok have APIs too, and they’re typically free because the arrangement is mutually beneficial. Ok, technology explainer over..
Microsoft is a regular user of Twitter’s API. No one had a problem with it, at least not out in any public temper tantrum kind of way. According to Musk’s threatening letter, Microsoft integrated the API with apps including Xbox One Social, Bing Pages, Azure, and Microsoft ads.The letter says Microsoft used the API in a number of ways that violated Twitter’s terms of service.
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