But what if you do? Will you get caught?
If it’s publicly accessible it’s scrape-able. He already tried to make tweets not publicly accessible and look how long that lasted.
Yep, would never remember on the odd occasions I would look at Twitter, then just leave the site after being prompted to login
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.
Lol, then they would have to demonstrate that there were damages. The worst a TOS violation will get you is a ban.
Bandwidth costs.
Would it be violating policy if the scrapper only took the public data and never actually signed the ToS since they didn’t make an account?
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.
Lol this has the same energy as those NFT idiots crying about people taking screenshots of their stupid monkeys.
Noooo, stop scraping my dataaaa!
Never waste an opportunity to use “muh” in place of “my”
No thanks!
I hope someone makes some manic bot that scrapes every last tweet and posts it on a duplicate site call Y
Might as well go whole hog and do the entire alphabet. Then do one for every iteration of every letter combination.
Good luck enforcing that.
Let the Supreme Court enforce it ;)
It should, but it won’t.
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?
Accessing the website is often viewed as accepting the terms, so that wouldn’t hold up. Not that they’d have a legal standpoint on the issue.
Accessing the website is often viewed as accepting the terms
The scraping bot can’t read the terms
But even if it could, it wouldn’t give a damn :-)
How do you read the terms without accessing their website?
By reading this message you agree to my terms that I’m really cool
Lol and you username
This is hilariously unenforceable as long as Twitter is on the public internet.
Is this like some kind of reverse psychology shit, where a demand to not scrape or crawl the data is supposed to make people go oh, yeah, I must be missing some great data! instead of staying away from it in droves because X is the cesspool it has now become?
I mean yeah, there is some fraction of good material there, but increasingly it is just the worst that society has to offer, the cockroaches that came scurrying out when Trump turned the light on for them.
As an individual I want no part of that, yet it seems to me that before you’d spend time scraping or crawling data, you’d actually want the data. I would rather scrape catshit off my shoe than scrape that hot mess. At least catshit is more honest, and chances are lower that I will have to pick swastikas out of it.
Or just stop using X all together.
How on earth will do they plan on enforcing that? xD
They don’t have to enforce it. If someone says bad things about Twitter by analysing their content, Twitter can sue them scraping.
Just update robot.txt coward!
Took a look at their robots.txt, it appears to block all bots except Google.
Crawling for me, not thee!
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.
don’t!
You heard him, scrape more.
So he’s going to sue google then?
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.
“more free” my dude people who pay $8 per month get their replies boosted up above everyone else. What are you talking about?
More free in that the moderation doesn’t have a bias. I think any bias is harmful, be it Left or Right leaning. I much prefer the current approach of fact checking posts with community notes over hiding posts that are deemed undesirable.
Didn’t our little Free Speech Absolutist™️ ban the “slurs” cis and cisgender while also banning folks who misgender cis folks while supporting those who do the same to trans folks? (To say nothing of the removal of lots and lots of other legal speech that he did not like. If that’s what unbiased looks like to you, I think that you may want to examine your own biases.
