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> if(requests > bigNumber) banHammer(); If requests from who? or what? Account? IP? Because no one is doing it from one account or one IP. > There are plenty
by HAL3000 3y ago
> if(requests > bigNumber) banHammer();
If requests from who? or what? Account? IP? Because no one is doing it from one account or one IP.
> There are plenty of solutions for these types of problems.
Actually not a lot, it's a really hard problem to solve, unless you're referring to unsophisticated scrapers that have no idea what they're doing and are following some online tutorials on how to scrape Twitter. Out of desperation, they even implemented blanket bans on entire legitimate mobile carriers in some EU countries, but it didn't have a lot of impact on the business of Twitter scraping.
- kube-system 3y ago"Enforceable" doesn't mean "infallible". Yes, it is a hard problem. Legal justice is also a hard problem. My above point is that twitter can unilaterally take steps to enforce their policy, i.e. they do not need to lean on legal mechanisms.
- edmundsauto 3y agoThere's another strategy possible here - technical blocking will prevent almost all scraping (proxies are damn expensive for hobbyists and hackers!). For people who go around these limitations, it will speak to their intent to bypass access limits and they can be taken down in a court. Non-business-entities of course may escape judgement if they cannot be found or are in a place that doesn't enforce these kinds of laws. However, I bet Twitter's bigger fear is the US and EU commercial entities and generative AI - limiting access and then going after them in court will stop a lot of commercial enterprises.