Elon Musk's decision to add daily reading limits to prevent data scraping also has the following impact:
1. Reduces Twitter's search engine exposure, reducing new signups
2. Reduces the number of real-time info providers, which also reduces the number of people looking for that content
3. Reduces Twitter's advertising revenue as active user count and confidence in the future of the platform are also reduced
@argentini The limit is also per IP/account combination. Using a VPN resets the limit everytime you change your IP.
It's not going do anything to stop scrapers (not that it was anything more than a lame cover story to hide his incompetence at the fact that he broke something). The prices of the API are so outrageously high that it's cheaper to buy 100 blue accounts and then use scrapers with rotating IPs then it is to pay his API fees.
Michael Argentini
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