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

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

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

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

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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.