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”

  • django@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    141·
    1 year 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.