0 sats \ 1 reply \ @franzap 1 Jul 2023 \ parent \ on: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets tech
Hard to believe.
Throttling would've worked without impacting UX.
Also there are armies of bots with Twitter accounts out there. Those can keep scraping.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 1 Jul 2023
Musk says that the scrapers are using huge swaths of IP address space to bypass rate limiting.
As for scraping with Twitter accounts, obviously accounts can get banned after reading too many tweets.
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