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But what if you do? Will you get caught?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It’s not even clear that it’s illegal to scrape publicly available data, so I don’t know what the TOS would be enforcing.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It didn't have to be illegal for them to sue you for violating its policies. It would be a civil suit for damages.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol, then they would have to demonstrate that there were damages. The worst a TOS violation will get you is a ban.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's still a billionaire suing you for those peanuts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Suing for 50 dollar or so? Fine.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, they have more money to blow on legal fees. The threat of a suit is enough to keep most perks from fucking around and finding out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Would it be violating policy if the scrapper only took the public data and never actually signed the ToS since they didn't make an account?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's not publicly available anymore. If you're not logged in you don't see anything anymore except tweets you have a direct link to. Even then you don't see any replies and the amount of tweets per day you can see is limited.