Goodbye Twitter Scraping?

Caviston

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Elon Musk just tweeted:

To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day

https://twitter.com/x/status/1675187969420828672

 

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They try to force everyone to buy Twitter Blue.

I see lots of complaints people can't see their normal feed due to the limit being exceeded.. This will backfire on them for sure.

 

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If this means that twitter won’t be accessible publicly anymore, then that will be the end of it. For sure it will be.

 

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Elon just proves he is retarded.
There are so many ways to limit/stop scraping, especially when you sit on pile of money...

 

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I will scrape without login so there will be no limit

 

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satyr85

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Salamouna said:

I will scrap without login so there will be no limit

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"Twitter is blocking people from viewing tweets and profiles on its website unless they are signed in to the social media site." - source

 

Brickbat1

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Oh the good old times... everywhere is locking up slowly but surely..

 

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Salamouna said:

I will scrap without login so there will be no limit

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“Scrape” unless you are trying to repurpose some old ship or something.

 

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Caviston said:

Elon Musk just tweeted:

To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:

- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day

https://twitter.com/x/status/1675187969420828672

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It can be still scraped though crawlers around 1 million tweets every 30 minutes.

 

Waifu_tatyana

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Will the Terminally online Twitter Activists finally go outside after their daily feed-scrolling quota is reached?

 

ifcmd

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satyr85 said:

Elon just proves he is retarded.

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Agreed. How is this not the dumbest move? Seems it will effectively stop all visitors that were landing on twitter from search engines, or people/business linking their twitter on their sites/blogs for communications.

Guess it's part of the journey to tank the site.

 

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ifcmd said:

Agreed. How is this not the dumbest move? Seems it will effectively stop all visitors that were landing on twitter from search engines, or people/business linking their twitter on their sites/blogs for communications.

Guess it's part of the journey to tank the site.

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hmmm it may be a tactic to not have to pay back the loan he took for buying twitter (if he did… I heard rumours). So no, it might actually be a very smart move in terms of money.

 

thunderhd

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Twitter: The end

 

LilMosey

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Scraping maybe not but people who use tools like TwitterDub will be hurt the most.

 

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I'd say it's goodbye Twitter

It's completely broken as we speak

 

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Pay2Tweet

 

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LilMosey said:

Pay2Tweet

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If we think about it, social network make little sense financially. I mean, 99.999% of the content in there is plain trash. 99.9999% users don't make them a single penny. Fake news and crazy conspiracies are rampant. Politically, social networks have done more damage than nuclear bombs, especially during the pandemic.

I say good riddance if all social networks shut down.

 

Salamouna

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satyr85 said:

"Twitter is blocking people from viewing tweets and profiles on its website unless they are signed in to the social media site." - source

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I can see the tweet above and I'm not logged in
so there must be a way

 

ifcmd

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How am I supposed to get my https://twitter.com/justinbieber fix, if I can't view it publicly

 

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I love how everyone knows better than Elon.

I'm not commenting on whether it's good or bad, but it's funny that people keep calling him dumb. He's the wealthiest man on the planet right now.. But yet, every tom dick and harry in their mom's basement knows better about how to run twitter ;-)