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Re:Update on Twitter's Rate Limits by threeseed on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:05AM (#36596608)
This looks to be complete nonsense.

Scraping services work by going through thousands of intermediate proxies run on unsuspecting people's compromised computers. Each scraping request will be a unique IP with a normal looking header.

They may be able to look at the number of unique requests per account but given the ridiculous amount of spam/bots that exist clearly creating new accounts isn't an impediment.

The far more likely scenario is that they were throttled by AWS/GCP for not paying bills and are behind on their migration project.

Re:Update on Twitter's Rate Limits by supsep2 on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @03:08AM (#36596640)
So all scrapers are viruses? Need to me.
Re:Update on Twitter's Rate Limits by DistractionRect on Wednesday July 05, 2023 @11:34AM (#36601865)
Almost all "residential" proxies are run without the knowledge of the user used as the proxy. Either it's slipped in the ToS/install of other legitimate product or straight up malware. A popular method, iirc, was bundling with free VPNs.

Last I looked into the discussion, the consensus was there was no particularly reputable residential proxy service.