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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by ceejayoz on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @04:58PM (#22539606)
"Legal" and "won't be interfered with" are not the same thing. That it's legal to scrape doesn't mean they can't put captchas, IP blocks, etc. in your way.

Scraping doesn't really help when publishing tweets, either.

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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by colejohnson66 on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @07:15PM (#22541024)
I thought the point of the LinkedIn lawsuit was that they were trying to stop them from scraping?
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Re:Twitter rewrites developer policy to better support resea... by ceejayoz on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @07:44PM (#22541290)
LinkedIn was trying to do so via legal measures (specifically, alleging violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in a C&D letter).
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