Musk’s X Corp. sues data scrapers for “severely taxing” Twitter’s servers
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/446751
Alternative title: Musk sues data scrapers, blames them for Twitter’s “impaired user experience”
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/07/musk-sues-data-scrapers-blames-them-for-twitters-impaired-user-experience/Open linkView original on lemmy.zip
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.
I always wondered why they just don't block the IP range.
They laid off the people who knew how to do that.
Rank incompetence, starting from the top of the organization.
The man gotta pay his google cloud bills somehow.