readbeanicecreamTwitter sues four unknown entities for 'unlawful data scraping' | Engadget
Elon Musk blamed scraping by these unknown entities for Twitter's decision to put a cap on how many tweets a user can see per day. #musk #twitter #lawsuit #webscraping #tech
simpleLast I checked web scraping was pretty lawful
getBooleanonly when publicly accessible yes. but twitter recently disabled reading tweets without an account and bypassing that for web scraping could make it not legal
BraveSirZaphodDepends very much on the terms in which the content is made available. It's more than a little over-zealous, but the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act technically makes any unauthorized access to a computer system illegal. If Twitter makes it explicitly known to you that you're not authorized to scrape them and you do it anyway, there is some potential liability.