In what ways is data scraping harmful for Twitter?

[Seo Captain]

Elon Musk is taking lot of steps to prevent data scraping on Twitter. Why is he so much scared of data scraping? What can be possible effects of this on his business?

 

[scheit]

He wants to get paid for the data.

 

[dandan594594]

Server resource cost.

 

[Seo Captain]

He wants to get paid for the data.

Server resource cost.

Both are contradictory. He is ok sharing data if paid even at cost of server resource cost?

 

[DavidG1510]

Sorry, but I must ask and I know I can speak for the rest of us.
In simple term, what is Data Scraping?

 

[Bring On Top]

In simple term, Server resource cost.

 

[reknaw]

He is scraping twitter data for is own x .ai company

imagine how cretinous an AI fed with tweets is going to be. SidneyXXL, ultra right-wing with ultra-light IQ

 

[Seo Captain]

Sorry, but I must ask and I know I can speak for the rest of us.
In simple term, what is Data Scraping?

Automatically taking data from a platform.

 

[imccafey]

He's keeping the user data secure, isn't that enough of a reason to keep it safe? Anyway, it's probably to keep a monopoly on that data the site holds on to; should make it more valuable.

 

[EvoCreatix]

Huge inetrested you service Please give a sample!...

 

[sozu]

He is facing significant losses and wants to earn some money by selling data. He doesn't want to give away data for free to anyone.

 

[proxygo]

Elon Musk is taking lot of steps to prevent data scraping on Twitter. Why is he so much scared of data scraping? What can be possible effects of this on his business?

zuck and elon both use there platforms to scrape data and push adds
just that elon is nicer about it .

 

[PURSUIT MEDIA]

It could expose his strategies to maintain his small monopoly and hinder the growth of competitive products that might impact Twitter's market share.

 

[hkey]

because now the API is paid