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In an unforeseen turn of events, Twitter has decided to test user patience by cloistering tweets behind a sign-in wall

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[–] Chozo@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What damage do web scrapers actually cause Twitter? I don't understand Elon's logic in this move.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Extra traffic that their infrastructure can't handle since he fired all the people that knew how.

Like reddit, he also probably sees it as losing millions of dollars for data he wants to be paid for.

So losing money from degraded services and losing potential money from data being taken.

What's worth more - the loss of ad revenue from walled login, or the loss of potential revenue selling the data

[–] trynn@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

Your first mistake is assuming that Elon Musk uses any kind of logic.

[–] eu8@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

There's no way they cause more damage than what they have done now. The vast majority of users (and eyes on ads, etc) are not going to have accounts. The majority of accounts that might pay money only do so because lots of people (who may not be logged in) see them.

[–] Niello@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

You have to assume flawed logic if you want to understand him.

[–] orcrist@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Elon doesn't understand how to use robots.txt.

[–] Mateng@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

To be fair, many bots don't know how to use it either.

[–] uint8_t@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

there is no Elon logic other than having an ego larger than this planet