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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by ipsum2 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:19AM (#36547199)
This makes no logical sense. Why would the scraping not restart after its unlocked? More realistically, he got a lot of backlash from users and website owners where embedded tweets suddenly stopped showing up.
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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by dizhn on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:37AM (#36547336)
Presumably they will put some protections in place.
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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by ipsum2 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @06:28AM (#36548617)
Possibly, but they wrote those protections in ~5 hours? Seems dubious.
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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by cubefox on Saturday July 01, 2023 @09:37AM (#36549969)
Where did you get the 5 hours from?
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