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You've always had to login to post, so I don't see how twitters increasing push to force logins would impact a preexisting spam problem.
by ineedasername 5y ago
You've always had to login to post, so I don't see how twitters increasing push to force logins would impact a preexisting spam problem.
- redmen 5y agoScraping for one.
- nicce 5y agoYou don’t push feature like that for tens of millions to prevent some scrapers who bypass it in few minutes by creating account which is not providing anything to Twitter. They account requirement is simple there for more efficient data collection.
- saagarjha 5y agoPreventing scraping is kind of the point of "Twitter is increasing the height of the walls around its garden".
- shiomiru 5y agoIt doesn't prevent scraping at all, otherwise nitter wouldn't work either.
- redmen 5y ago???? Firstly nothing prevents scraping. It makes it more expensive. I ask everyone here to stop telling every word so literal