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Emil's avatar

Seems like limiting data scraping is a good thing. And it is hard to see why real people would be complaining anyway. 10,000 tweets a day! That means looking at tweets your entire day! Elon is doing Twitter-addicted people a favor. There is a whole wonderful world out there people. Look up from your phone!

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Susan Banks's avatar

Yes!!! I’m telling all these young kids to go to school to be neck doctors because we will need it! Everyone’s head is down on their phone!! I hate it!!

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RunningLogic's avatar

Great advice 😁😆 Chiropractors too!

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walk2write's avatar

Massage therapists and fitness trainers can help a lot with the neck and shoulder problems.

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Shy Boy's avatar

Scraping is strictly for those too cheap to use the official backdoors:

https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitter-api/enterprise

Elon just wants his big customers to cough up some dough.

The spooks can still (ab)use the FISA backdoors. They always will. That's a big part of why there even is such a thing as Twitter.

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DefCon-Dan's avatar

Exactly, and here is their biggest enterprise customer, which is no surprise.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/bb-google-scrape-everything-post-online-ai/

Methinks these limits will not apply to their enterprise customers with their paid for back doors.

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DefCon-Dan's avatar

Scraping is for retail customers, and direct DB exporting is for their wholesale enterprise customers? Little or nothing has probably changed from what was exposed in the 'Twit Files'.

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Gigi Gummerson's avatar

Exactly what I thought. I don’t know how you’d get through 1000 in a day but I’m a casual user.

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GreaterIsrahell's avatar

A thousand tweets/day x a thousand accounts = 1.000.000 scrapes. Multiply again with the actuall number, and you get an astronomic result.

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FH's avatar

Yup!!! And here’s a video eloquently making that point, about 4 minutes: https://youtu.be/QugooaNRnsk

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LS Woodruff's avatar

Similar to how I view the captured masses, so incredibly tragic.

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CuiBono?'s avatar

My thoughts exactly. Wow?!

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