Still, the company would agree to grant Musk’s side access to the firehose sets of data anyway and prepared to provide credentials for his engineers to access the information. Twitter’s engineers set up the information on a tool that allowed them to track how Musk’s side ran queries of the data in order to audit what they were looking at. Early on, they realized the billionaire’s team wasn’t doing much of anything with the data or running particularly meaningful searches. The request, in their view, had been a farce.
