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Elon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets

www.theverge.com Elon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets

Only people who pay for Twitter can see more than 600 posts per day

Elon Musk blamed AI companies for new “temporary” limitations on Twitter access. Verified accounts can read up to 6,000 posts per day, while unverified users are limited to seeing 600 posts per day.

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This isn’t how you handle automated processes scraping you, you handle that by restricting things that human beings can’t do. Preventing literally every user from seeing a reasonable amount of content is just cutting off your nose to spite your face.
- I’m in IT for a company with a significant web presence. We rely on Akamai for a number of services including CDN and WAF (web application firewall). They have a WAF add-on called Bot Manager that can pretty accurately identify web traffic from bots in real time. If what Musk is claiming was true then tools like Akamais Bot Manager and other similar products would easily identify this traffic and allow them to block it or route it elsewhere.
  Musk should know this. I know Tesla uses Akamai.
  
  I'm pretty sure he doesn't wanna pay such service and prefer cheaper / easier way.

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