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Alternative title: Musk sues data scrapers, blames them for Twitter’s “impaired user experience”
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I like this “sue everything” stage of failing.
“Musk sues capitalism”
Oh shit hope he wins
The “blame everyone but myself” era of MElon’s failure.
See: SCO Group’s secretly Microsoft-backed lawsuits against Novell:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_Group%2C_Inc._v._Novell%2C_Inc.
…and if you don’t believe me about being, “secretly backed by Microsoft”:
http://techrights.org/2009/08/07/sco-and-anti-linux-microsoft-lawsuits/
Musk really caught the Trump virus didn’t he? What next, running for president?
Maybe if Twitter provided a reasonably priced API, people wouldn’t have to resort to scrapers.
Scrapers aren’t ever going to use an API, but Twitter could have just blocked unrecognized traffic if they wanted. I’m sure it’s covered by the TOS.
How exactly do you expect them to do that? It’s not inherently a trivial problem.
Yeah, people think this is like trying to stop drive by bots that are looking for PHP vulnerabilities, it isn’t.
Usually you are attempting to stop someone who is spending their entire day trying to scrape your site. It’s a full time job trying to stop them and even then it’s a cat and mouse game at best.
Still don’t think Elon is going to get anywhere with this though.
Twitter can remove their servers from the public facing internet if they don’t want the traffic.
Best solution imho
Twitter very much does not want that to happen. Remember two weeks ago when Musk reversed his decision to block anyone but registered users from seeing tweets because Google started removing links to Twitter since they were dead?
Right-wingers don’t just want to be bigoted assholes with megaphones, they want to make sure decent people have to hear them too.
The same way any large web service would identify a sudden increase in traffic, whether malicious or not. For the servers I manage, we end up dealing with more unintentionally out-of-control bots than we do legitimate hack or DDoS attempts.
Wasn’t their own webapp DDOSing their site last week?
Yes. Yes it was. Lol.
Yes. They had to reverse that because they fucked it up so bad. This seems like the follow up to that - they couldn’t block people from accessing their data without making it worthless, so now they’re going to harass anyone getting their data without paying through the nose for it, even though it has to be publicly available to be useful, in hopes that it will force idiots to pay in.
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You can’t complain about other people impairing user experience when you’ve had like 3 different instances of tanking the servers all by yourself.
Pretty sure Elon knows this is unwinnable. Data scraping isn’t illegal, unless you can prove that the scrapers intended to cause harm to Twitter in the process. He’s doing this to harass whoever made him make an embarrassing mistake with the rate limits. He has a history of spending a stupid amount of money to (unsuccessfully) save face.
Also maybe twitter could show damages (and even then) but what the fuck kinda damages would this company have to be able to have a valid case?
Yeah each scrape is probably just as efficient as a page load (if not more due to caching).
“You can’t impair the user experience! Only I can do that!” -Elon “Emerald Mine Money” Musk
The Gang Gets Sued By Elon Musk
Suing people who are using his service. Peak moron move.
Is this like the moment in the dictatorship when the enemy is some outside force and not the incompetence of the leadership?
Hahaha oh man. This is literally ‘no u’ in lawsuit form.
Musk is ruining Twitter so much now.
Brilliant.
I wonder how long til Spez tries this. Lol.
The failing to pay your bills is impairing the user experience.
That and continuing to cater to brain-rotted conservatives.
