X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data
X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data
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X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data
But what if you do? Will you get caught?
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Lol this has the same energy as those NFT idiots crying about people taking screenshots of their stupid monkeys.
Noooo, stop scraping my dataaaa!
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Never waste an opportunity to use "muh" in place of "my"
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No thanks!
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And the next generation of AI probably only needs a fraction of the data it needs now so the need to scrape the data is gone.
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I hope someone makes some manic bot that scrapes every last tweet and posts it on a duplicate site call Y
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Might as well go whole hog and do the entire alphabet. Then do one for every iteration of every letter combination.
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He's still mad at those researchers for scraping the data that shows that ever since he took over, the antisemitism, racism and general bigotry has gone up on the platform.
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Good luck enforcing that.
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Let the Supreme Court enforce it ;)
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It should, but it won't.
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I’m pretty sure both parties must agree to the terms before they legally bind anyone so wouldn’t this just apply to logged in users?
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How on earth will do they plan on enforcing that? xD
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They don't have to enforce it. If someone says bad things about Twitter by analysing their content, Twitter can sue them scraping.
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“Our interns spent 500 hours collecting the raw data”.
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This is hilariously unenforceable as long as Twitter is on the public internet.
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I thought this was an article about the X Windows system based on the preview for the article. Boy are those two similar-looking.
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Realistically, very little people know about x windows system even less care about it.
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Or just stop using X all together.
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Just update robot.txt coward!
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Took a look at their robots.txt, it appears to block all bots except Google.
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Crawling for me, not thee!
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don't!
You heard him, scrape more.
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So he’s going to sue google then?
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When Elon bought Twitter I was hopeful- I strongly believe the world needs an open, free-speech based, 'public square'. The problem with the Internet right now is many 'public squares' are privately owned, and those private companies cater to advertisers more than users.
Sadly I don't think it's worked out that well. I think Twitter is probably better off than they were, but you can't have a public square without openness. And while Twitter/X is now more free, it's also less open.
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Yeah, well, Elon showed you how much he actually values free speech.
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"more free" my dude people who pay $8 per month get their replies boosted up above everyone else. What are you talking about?
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If it's publicly accessible it's scrape-able. He already tried to make tweets not publicly accessible and look how long that lasted.
It’s not even clear that it’s illegal to scrape publicly available data, so I don’t know what the TOS would be enforcing.
It didn't have to be illegal for them to sue you for violating its policies. It would be a civil suit for damages.
It's not publicly available anymore. If you're not logged in you don't see anything anymore except tweets you have a direct link to. Even then you don't see any replies and the amount of tweets per day you can see is limited.
Yep, would never remember on the odd occasions I would look at Twitter, then just leave the site after being prompted to login