Elon Musk accuses Satya Nadela of violating Twitter policy

Elon Musk's lawyer Alex Spiro has sent a letter to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella accusing the latter of violating Twitter's developer agreement by using its APIs for ‘unauthorized uses and purposes.’ Letter by Elon Musk's lawyers for Satya Nadella Dear Mr Nadella 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. Up until last month, when it declined to pay even a discounted rate for continued access to Twitter’s APIs and content, Microsoft operated eight separate Twitter API apps, listed below, which appear to provide data and functionality for at least five separate Microsoft products and services, including Xbox One, Bing Pages, Azure, Power Platform, and Ads. For example, the Azure Logic Apps for Fairfax app supplied Twitter content to a number of Microsoft endpoints that reference agovernment entity or agency, despite the fact that the Agreement prohibits use of the Twitter APIs on behalf of “any government-related entity” without first “identify all such Government End Users” to Twitter. An identification of all Twitter Content currently in Microsoft’s possession or control.2.Records describing all Twitter Content retained by Microsoft through its use of the Twitter APIs, the manner and format in which such Twitter Content was stored, and the manner in whichsuch Twitter Content was used by Microsoft.3.To the extent that any Twitter Content previously retained by Microsoft has been destroyed, adescription of how such Twitter Content was destroyed.4.Records describing all uses of the Twitter APIs for each Microsoft App, including, but notlimited to the following: a)a description of the use case for each Microsoft App, and any changes to those usecases during the past two years; an identification of any and all government-related entities served by each MicrosoftApp, and the date when each such government-related entity accessed Twitter Contentor the Twitter APIs through said Microsoft App; a description of any token pooling implemented in any of the Microsoft Apps,including the time period when any such token pooling occurred and the number of tokens that were pooled; and a description of any other means implemented in the Microsoft Apps to circumvent Twitter’s rate limits for the Twitter APIs. A written report, signed by an authorized representative, describing Microsoft’s deployment of Twitter Content and the Twitter APIs in each Microsoft App prior to the termination of theMicrosoft Apps in April 2023.