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The explanation is a jumbled mess, but I think there are two key parts here: 1. Somebody reverse engineered the iOS app, which allowed them to access Parler's
by cycrutchfield 6y ago
The explanation is a jumbled mess, but I think there are two key parts here:
1. Somebody reverse engineered the iOS app, which allowed them to access Parler's API and enumerate all of the content on the app
2. The Twilio shutdown affected SMS verification for new account registration, meaning people were now able to programmatically create many new user accounts which they could combine with #1 to scrape all the data without being rate limited
- Tostino 6y agoI don't believe they were actually rate limiting per account regardless. The "hacker" Set later in the day on Twitter that there was a misunderstanding that the account creation script was related at all to the data scraping. Just that it was actually possible, but unnecessary because they didn't rate limit per account.