>It's interesting that you automatically call those wanting to preserve what could possibly be very important history "malicious scrapers".

I am going off of twitter's view. If you store tweets locally you must listen for when they get deleted and then delete them on your end too. If a scraper is breaking twitter's rules I consider that malicious scraper.

https://developer.twitter.com/en/developer-terms/policy#3.Up...

>If you store Twitter Content offline, you must keep it up to date with the current state of that content on Twitter.