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by random_cynic
1084 days ago
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> there is no engineering solution for this and you're not going to be able to successfully sue companies for scraping Twitter There absolutely is, if you try instead of whining on internet. People at Vercel have already developed new anti-bot + fingerprinting + rate limiting techniques which look quite promising. I dare say within a year, new tools will be powerful enough to do this easily. |
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I see where you're coming from, but if Twitter is in a position where it can't roll out those protections right now, given its current head counts, etc... it's not going to be in a position where it can roll out those protections next week. Probably not next month.
So it's less that no one could block companies from scraping Twitter (although anti-scraping mechanisms are probably always going to be a cat-and-mouse game, so I'm not sure that there is ever going to be a perfect easy solution). It's more that if Twitter can't do it right now, nothing is going to magically change any time soon about the situation it has found itself in. And waiting a year (even waiting 6 months) for tools to become available before rolling back this rate limiting would be incredibly self-destructive for Twitter.
The way I see it, they're basically guaranteeing that they will need to roll back these changes before they have a solution to whatever specific problem or irritation Musk is fixated on. They're not going to gain additional engineering capabilities in the next week. And how long does Musk plan to leave rate-limiting in place? A social media site where people can't look at content is just broken.