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Re:Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politician... by jbigelow76 on Sunday August 23, 2015 @09:45PM (#10107480)
Then just eschew the Twitter API and scrape the website, then tell Twitter to go pound sand. Doesn't do anything about getting hit with a frivolous lawsuit but that's a different topic.
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Re:Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politician... by zeckalpha on Sunday August 23, 2015 @10:27PM (#10107573)
That would violate the Twitter ToS, too: https://twitter.com/tos
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Re:Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politician... by jbigelow76 on Sunday August 23, 2015 @11:55PM (#10107832)
Terms of Service never stops a unicorn.
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Re:Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politician... by ConfuciusSay on Monday August 24, 2015 @05:16PM (#10112978)
If their TOS prevents someone from taking a photograph of their website on a screen, it probably wouldn't hold up in court.
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Re:Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politician... by zeckalpha on Monday August 24, 2015 @05:25PM (#10113010)
Then will Politwoops take Twitter to court for fair use of the API?
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Re:Twitter has killed Politwoops, which monitored politician... by ConfuciusSay on Monday August 24, 2015 @05:34PM (#10113041)
Probably not Politwoops, because they were using the API. But perhaps a successor that did not use the API, but scraped and screenshoted only might have a good chance.
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