Flagged for linking to a tweet I can't view since you haven't written what it says

The "stop AI data scrapers temporarily" excuse doesn't hold under scrutiny since there's nothing Elon can do to stop scraping temporarily. If it appears in a web browser, it can be scraped, no exception.

And to what end? If the limits are dropped, the data scrapers will start scraping again.

To those who are blindly accepting this supposed reason, the answer is simple: engineering.

I can't view it. Can you quote it here?

Edit: Comments got moved. Is this the source of the OP's quote?

Twitter managed to withstand high load and scrapers before. Did this suddenly get significantly worse? Is it bad enough that caching or engineering solutions couldn't address the problem?

One reason it _could_ get worse is because Twitter effectively disabled and paywalled their API, which many of these groups could use instead of scraping

Yeah no, people are aware of the stupid excuse.