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Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode by optionalsquid on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:56PM (#36553736)
Doesn't the current situation imply that a lot of those users were bots/scrapers?
Re:Confirmed: Twitter switched temporarily to rate limited mode by paulmd on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:39PM (#36554212)
I don’t have an account so all my interactions with twitter are via discord bots. I don’t know where that falls into scraping vs bots but I ain’t an organic user from their perspective.

In theory the goal would be to push people like me to register and get an account to at least view, and force me into their platform/ecosystem so I can be measure and monetized.

Unfortunately, much like ape pics, printscreen key exists and people will simply pivot to posting png’s of twitter instead of direct linking