After Microsoft Advertising said it was dropping Twitter support, Elon Musk tweeted that it's “lawsuit time” over training “illegally using Twitter data”
Microsoft is winding down support for Twitter on its advertising platform, likely because the social media platform wants …
Microsoft Advertising users lose the ability to access or manage Twitter accounts through its tool when the withdrawal takes effect.
Twitter and Microsoft move from an integration dispute toward a potential fight over whether Microsoft had rights to use Twitter data for training; Musk's tweet itself does not establish a legal claim.
Second-order effects
Advertisers using Microsoft's platform must shift Twitter campaign workflows elsewhere, adding friction precisely as Twitter's ad business was under pressure to improve targeting.
A formal dispute would push both platforms to scrutinize the contracts and technical access governing social-data use, rather than treating product integrations and data access as interchangeable.
Third-order effects
If platforms increasingly assert control over data used in AI training, data-access agreements may become more explicit about training rights, remedies, and payment.
The episode points to a broader collision between platform distribution partnerships and AI data rights, though the eventual legal boundary would depend on the underlying agreements and any litigation outcome.
The trend: AI training is turning platform data access from a routine integration issue into a licensing and litigation-risk question.
By the way, for anyone still on twitter: The new privacy policy allows Elon to train AI on anything you post there, including text AND pictures. — So if I were an artist I'd get the hell off there, because legally you don't have a leg to stand on.
@krassenstein @TitterDaily I'm open to ideas, but ripping off the Twitter database, demonetizing it (removing ads) and then selling our data to others isn't a winning solution
Seeing Elon go at MS is gonna be hysterical. Richest man in the world v's one of the biggest corporations in the world. This will get really interesting real quick https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
If Elon fans didn't all have goldfish brains they'd remember the last ten million times he said he'd do something and then just never did it https://twitter.com/...
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Musk's threats highlight the growing tension surrounding data ownership in the AI landscape. The battle for AI dominance has just begun. https://twitter.com/...
Trained what, exactly? And how was it illegal when everyone was allowed to read, use, and plug into Twitter API for years, oh heck this is going to be very interesting. https://twitter.com/...