Elon Musk blamed scraping by these unknown entities for Twitter’s decision to put a cap on how many tweets a user can see per day.
Last I checked web scraping was pretty lawful
Depends very much on the terms in which the content is made available. It’s more than a little over-zealous, but the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act technically makes any unauthorized access to a computer system illegal. If Twitter makes it explicitly known to you that you’re not authorized to scrape them and you do it anyway, there is some potential liability.
The entire Twitter outage was caused by scraping from only four addresses in Texas? And instead of just blocking those four addresses at the border they implemented rate limits across the board? That sounds … implausible.
Very appropriate in this case:
