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> Scraping the Twitter website is against the terms of service and may result in permanent suspension of access.

And what is Twitter gonna do about it? I never sign the TOS and scrape as much as I want.

> may result in permanent suspension of access

A.k.a.: they will try their best to IP ban you.

And then if you circumvent that, perhaps bring charges under CFAA.

Would work only if you are based in US thou

Yeah screw people accessing public information...

Well, that’s kinda the whole point. They don’t feel like it is truly public information. You gotta give something in return.

I wonder if this has changed in light of the recent LinkedIn decision?