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		WalterBright on July 1, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets Elon Musk wrote: Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience. What should we do to stop that? I’m open to ideas. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674887204580073474

AHOHA on July 1, 2023 [–]

They can still scrap it but now with an account cookie? Also, what’s the problem of scraping it, it’s just like browsing systematically.

WalterBright on July 1, 2023 | [–]

If there is a sufficient quantity of scrapers, it's equivalent to a DOS attack. The scraping traffic may even exceed the user traffic.

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