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It's probably also about getting people to use the API. With Twitter's data being public, bots and data analyzers can just scrape the site instead of paying fo
by leros 3y ago
It's probably also about getting people to use the API.
With Twitter's data being public, bots and data analyzers can just scrape the site instead of paying for the now extremely expensive API. Not only does this mean Twitter isn't getting paid, but scraping puts a lot more load on Twitter servers than equivalent API usage.
- samwillis 3y agoAnyone doing industrial scraping already knows all the tricks for user agent swapping and making headers, including their order, look like "real" browsers or bots. It's not about pushing people to the API.