Over the weekend, Twitter was not the place to be.
Elon Musk’s troubled social media site once again went down for users across the world. This time the site featured messages that read ‘Rate Limit Exceeded’ and ‘cannot view tweets right now.’ As a result of the problems, Musk announced on Saturday a new temporary ‘rule’ that has never existed on the social media site before.
This will be unlocked shortly. Per my earlier post, drastic & immediate action was necessary due to EXTREME levels of data scraping.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data.
It is rather…