NewsletterBreaking: Elon Musk Discloses Rationale Behind The Latest Twitter Lawsuit
Twitter CTO Elon Musk on Thursday revealed the reason behind the latest lawsuit filed against four entities for scraping Twitter data. He justified that several entities attempted to scrape tweets from the platform within a short period of time and “that is why we had to put rate limits in place.” Twitter users are affected by recent changes and moved to other social media platforms.
Elon Musk’s X Corp (Twitter) Files Lawsuit Against Four Entities
According to a filing in the District Court of Dallas County, Elon Musk’s X Corp. — the company that owns Twitter — has filed a lawsuit against four entities. X Corp. has accused these four people or entities of scraping Twitter data.
The petition filed on July 6 referred to four defendants as John Doe 1, John Doe 2, John Doe 3, and John Doe 4, and identified by their IP addresses. It says the defendants tried to scrape data unlawfully from the social media platform and even contracted with entities maintaining data processing facilities in Dallas County, Texas.
“John Does 1-4 are unknown persons or entities associated with particular Internet Protocol addresses that have engaged in widespread unlawful scraping of data from Twitter.”
Elon Musk’s X Corp seeks $1 million in monetary relief from separate entities and other damages. The firm said millions of requests severely burdened X Corp’s servers and degraded the user experience for millions of Twitter customers.
Elon Musk took to Twitter to again explain to users why it has taken measures such as requiring users to login to read tweets, introducing limits on viewing tweets, and restricting access to other products for unverified users.
Several entities tried to scrape every tweet ever made in a short period of time. That is why we had to put rate limits in place.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 13, 2023
Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino said it’s necessary to make “big moves” to strengthen and improve the platform. She said removing spam and bots from Twitter is the primary reason for the rationale behind its sudden policy changes including “rate limits” on posts.
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