X Corp. lawsuit says unidentified scrapers forced Twitter to impose rate limits.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/446751

Alternative title: Musk sues data scrapers, blames them for Twitter’s “impaired user experience”

  • @[email protected]English
    11•2 years ago

    This is why it’s important to have API access available (for a reasonable price, let alone free). The people who want Twitter data are now loading tons of completely unnecessary and heavy multimedia content just to parse it manually for the comparatively light text data they care about. It would literally save Twitter money to give the data away.

  • JeenaEnglish
    8•2 years ago

    I always wondered why they just don’t block the IP range.

    • @fuboEnglish
      18•2 years ago

      They laid off the people who knew how to do that.

  • @pacologyEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    The man gotta pay his google cloud bills somehow.