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Scraping for one.

• nicce 5y ago
  You 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.
  • redmen 5y ago
    And Twitter's business model is largely based on data collection?
    • nicce 4y ago
      Actually, yes. They sell data products and ads.
• saagarjha 5y ago
  Preventing scraping is kind of the point of "Twitter is increasing the height of the walls around its garden".
• shiomiru 5y ago
  It 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