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gboudrias
on Nov 14, 2017
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Introducing Twitter premium APIs
> Scraping the Twitter website is against the terms of service and may result in permanent suspension of access.
Scraping is always against the ToS, so no surprise there. I doubt it's really ever stopped anyone.
oculusthrift
on Nov 15, 2017
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i would imagine it stops researchers.. who usually try do things legit
spaniard89277
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It does. We contacted them seeking academic discounts, and there wasn't. I was in a little university in Spain. No one is going to drop 20k like that.
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Scraping is always against the ToS, so no surprise there. I doubt it's really ever stopped anyone.