0 sats \ 1 reply \ @faithandcredit 1 Jul 2023 \ parent \ on: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets tech
Thx for sharing. It would help if they put a banner announcing this temporary measure when ppl visit without an account.
But when you think about it why don't the ai ppl just create an account to continue scraping the data? And what happens when the site "opens up" again? Won't the ai simply start scraping again?
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3 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 1 Jul 2023
Creating an account means your traffic is associated with an account, and Twitter can easily ban that account.
Musk says that the scrapers are using huge swaths of IP address space to bypass rate limiting.
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