I can't speak for him, just relaying the information.

But I'm happy to speculate: Organizations violated the twitter TOS by scraping, and he's going to sue the organizations for it.

In light of hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn [1], I'm not sure that Elon has a cause of action that he's likely to succeed on with respect to sueing scrapers.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn,

If they go behind the paywall and start scraping, he'll be able to sue and have a chance. I wonder how many scrapers will continue to scrape...

Unless I misunderstood, he might actually have a case.

> In a second ruling in April 2022 the Ninth Circuit affirmed its decision.[5][6] In a November 2022 ruling the Ninth Circuit ruled that hiQ had breached LinkedIn's User Agreement and a settlement agreement was reached between the two parties. [7]

I imagine part of the terms of using Twitter give the corporation ownership of comments. As is their right.

This also really sounds like he's trying to pretend his data is some kind of rare commodity, when the reality is that it's bottom of the barrel trash as far as text data for LLMs goes.