Musk put limits on how many posts a person could read based on their user status. Why? Because:
“Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.”
I have no idea what this means. Please educate me.
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crackertoes
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Re: Twitter
What it looks like is a large number of firms involved with AI, decided it was a good time to go looking for data to use.
Scraping is when the goal is to just gather large amounts data from a site, generally without an account.
When this happens the site can slow down or crash if it doesn't have enough servers to handle the requests.
It's kind of like a denial of service attack, where a bunch of people all try to log on the the same site at the same time to crash the site.
Looks like Twitter was reaching that point so they put a limit on how much you could look at to reduce traffic.
Scraping is when the goal is to just gather large amounts data from a site, generally without an account.
When this happens the site can slow down or crash if it doesn't have enough servers to handle the requests.
It's kind of like a denial of service attack, where a bunch of people all try to log on the the same site at the same time to crash the site.
Looks like Twitter was reaching that point so they put a limit on how much you could look at to reduce traffic.
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