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Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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Anyone familiar with the legal reasons Twitter might be able to prevent sites like nitter from working? I believe scraping is legal but I'm sure there are details that make this different

From the letter(s): > X has documentary evidence that you are scraping X Data, circumventing X’s API access controls and rate limits, accessing X using X accounts and session tokens in violation of X’s rules, and republishing X Data to the public. X’s Terms of Service, Developer Agreement, and Developer Policy strictly forbid such conduct. See https://x.com/en/tos (“[C]rawling or scraping the Services in any form . .…

Is this comparable to LinkedIn scraping?

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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What is the main use case for X these days? Is it still as popular as it used to be? Clearly the exodus that happened when Musk took it over didn't kill it but I do seem to see fewer links to it than I used to. Whenever I do see it linked on here it seems to be because one of the big tech CEOs has said something on it.

There's lots of US sports content. That's all I use it for.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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Anyone familiar with the legal reasons Twitter might be able to prevent sites like nitter from working? I believe scraping is legal but I'm sure there are details that make this different

if i understand correctly, in Meta v. Bright Data, the court ruled that brightdata was allowed to scrape public profiles because the user is unauthenticated. thus I do not believe that precedent is in favor of nitter currently

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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What is the main use case for X these days? Is it still as popular as it used to be? Clearly the exodus that happened when Musk took it over didn't kill it but I do seem to see fewer links to it than I used to. Whenever I do see it linked on here it seems to be because one of the big tech CEOs has said something on it.

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Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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What is the main use case for X these days? Is it still as popular as it used to be? Clearly the exodus that happened when Musk took it over didn't kill it but I do seem to see fewer links to it than I used to. Whenever I do see it linked on here it seems to be because one of the big tech CEOs has said something on it.

Depends on the algos. My jp account sees none of that, mostly news, jokes and some random what’s happening in parts of Japan. NA tuned account has more of what you said.

The algos aren’t language neutral yet.

Yet. Japanese twitter users are a reflection of who they are, etc etc

Doesn’t mean there isn’t toxic stuff though.

Re: Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

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post #64

Anyone familiar with the legal reasons Twitter might be able to prevent sites like nitter from working? I believe scraping is legal but I'm sure there are details that make this different

From the letter(s): > X has documentary evidence that you are scraping X Data, circumventing X’s API access controls and rate limits, accessing X using X accounts and session tokens in violation of X’s rules, and republishing X Data to the public. X’s Terms of Service, Developer Agreement, and Developer Policy strictly forbid such conduct. See https://x.com/en/tos (“[C]rawling or scraping the Services in any form . .…

I wonder how xAI steals its AI training material! Of course no scraping is involved!1!!

They stole the Nitter code too of course without attribution. Does SpaceX really want to go into this?

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