Elon Musks Twitter Takes Aim at Data Scraping, Limits Number of Tweets Accounts Can Read

Twitter introduced tweet-reading rate limits to address extreme levels of data scraping, owner Elon Musk reaffirmed on Thursday. The company had to put those restrictions in place because “several entities tried to scrape every tweet ever made in a short period,” he wrote in reply to a tweet that said the social media company had filed a lawsuit against four entities in Texas for data scraping. “That kind of behavior hurts the health and stability of Twitter,” he added. Several Twitter users complained of being unable to view their posts after the tweet-reading limits went into effect on July 1, … Continue reading Elon Musks Twitter Takes Aim at Data Scraping, Limits Number of Tweets Accounts Can Read