Twitter set to comply with Elon Musk demand for data on fake accounts

Network ready to provide stream of daily data after world's richest man threatened to pull out of $44bn purchase if Twitter refused

Twitter is preparing to comply with Elon Musk's demand for data on fake accounts, after the Tesla chief executive threatened to walk away from buying the business if it refused.

The social media company will provide the world's richest man with access to a stream of data comprising more than 500 million tweets posted every day, according to the Washington Post. A number of companies already pay for access to the data, which includes a real-time record of tweets, the devices users tweet from and information about the accounts that tweet, the Post reported.