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Re:The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter by redmen on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:13PM (#30951467)
Scraping for one.
Re:The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter by nicce on Thursday April 07, 2022 @07:47PM (#30951683)
You don’t push feature like that for tens of millions to prevent some scrapers who bypass it in few minutes by creating account which is not providing anything to Twitter.

They account requirement is simple there for more efficient data collection.

Re:The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter by redmen on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:08AM (#30953818)
And Twitter's business model is largely based on data collection?
Re:The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter by nicce on Saturday April 09, 2022 @05:31AM (#30966494)
Actually, yes. They sell data products and ads.
Re:The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter by shiomiru on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:46AM (#30953406)
It doesn't prevent scraping at all, otherwise nitter wouldn't work either.
Re:The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter by redmen on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:07AM (#30953809)
???? Firstly nothing prevents scraping. It makes it more expensive.

I ask everyone here to stop telling every word so literal

Re:The ever-increasing walled-gardeness of Twitter by saagarjha on Thursday April 07, 2022 @11:06PM (#30952921)
Preventing scraping is kind of the point of "Twitter is increasing the height of the walls around its garden".