I fail to see how is data scraping company different from Nitter instances.
andsoitis•1h ago
The distinction is scraping public pages vs. circumventing access controls.
Nitter is accused of: using an unofficial API, routing traffic through nitter servers, requiring operators to supply real X accounts, using session tokens, circumventing X’s API restrictions/rate limits, and then publishing the resulting material.
Still not a slam dunk for X, but keep in mind that their actual goal is to shut down nitter and can do so by increasing nitter’s legals costs.
Markoff•1h ago
andsoitis•1h ago
Nitter is accused of: using an unofficial API, routing traffic through nitter servers, requiring operators to supply real X accounts, using session tokens, circumventing X’s API restrictions/rate limits, and then publishing the resulting material.
Still not a slam dunk for X, but keep in mind that their actual goal is to shut down nitter and can do so by increasing nitter’s legals costs.