San Francisco. A lawyer for Twitter owner Elon Musk has accused Microsoft of misusing the data of the microblogging website (Twitter). He has also written a letter to the information technology giant Microsoft, demanding an audit in the matter.
The letter primarily focuses on Twitter’s allegations of alleged irregularities by Microsoft in obtaining information from its database of tweets. But, this is expected to increase the dispute between the two companies over the misuse of data going forward. Earlier in a tweet, Musk had developed artificial intelligence (AI) based advanced technology like Chat-GPT on Microsoft and its partner Open-AI. In doing so, it was accused of ‘illegally’ using Twitter’s data.
In this April tweet, Musk said, “Time for trial.” The letter, signed by Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro, also centers around the same allegation.
It states that Microsoft’s agreement with Twitter prohibits the company from using the microblogging website’s data ‘in excess of the permitted amount or inappropriate use’. had achieved over 26 billion tweets. He did not provide any reference to corroborate the figure.
The letter also alleges that Microsoft was supposed to inform Twitter about the potential use of its data, but the company failed to do so for six of its eight applications that collected information from Twitter’s database. The letter also states that at least one of Microsoft’s applications supplied Twitter’s data to multiple virtual mediums, in violation of an agreement between the two parties. The point of the site is believed to be towards ‘government institutions or agencies’.
Meanwhile, Microsoft spokesman Frank Shaw issued a statement saying that the company will review the issues raised in the letter and then make an “appropriate response” to the allegations. Shaw said that “we look forward to maintaining our long partnership with Twitter.” Let’s hope. In the statement, he did not react to the allegations made in the letter.