Sorry I don’t buy it. Hundreds of millions of people use Twitter, and we are to understand that there are an enough people scraping to the extent that they had to suddenly take drastic action by shuttering unauthenticated access? Any dev would have told him that those supposedly scraping could simply setup Selenium or some other headless browser to login before scraping.
This smells of another failed Musk experiment at twiddling with the knobs to increase engagement, to me.
This smells of another failed Musk experiment at twiddling with the knobs to increase engagement, to me.