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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/446751
Alternative title: Musk sues data scrapers, blames them for Twitter’s “impaired user experience”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/446751
Alternative title: Musk sues data scrapers, blames them for Twitter’s “impaired user experience”
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.