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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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