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Musk’s X Corp. sues data scrapers for “severely taxing” Twitter’s servers

arstechnica.com Musk’s X Corp. sues data scrapers for “severely taxing” Twitter’s servers

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”

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8 comments

Maybe if Twitter provided a reasonably priced API, people wouldn't have to resort to scrapers.

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- Scrapers aren't ever going to use an API, but Twitter could have just blocked unrecognized traffic if they wanted. I'm sure it's covered by the TOS.
  
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  i think what the previous dude said is, people wouldn't not have resorted to use scrapping if there was a good api. one of the major reason people/organisations choose scrapping is because it's better than paying insane amounts of money for insane(ly low)amount of api calls.
  
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I like this "sue everything" stage of failing.

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- The "blame everyone but myself" era of MElon's failure.
  
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