That it’s this easy to get around the login ban shows how poorly executed and hastily planned this was.
I imagine it will be rolled-back in the next week as it becomes clear to advertisers how much lower value tweets are
I imagine it will be rolled-back in the next week as it becomes clear to advertisers how much lower value tweets are
With Twitter's data being public, bots and data analyzers can just scrape the site instead of paying for the now extremely expensive API. Not only does this mean Twitter isn't getting paid, but scraping puts a lot more load on Twitter servers than equivalent API usage.
Who ever scraped a page and doesn't know to try referrer, user-agent and all other 101 tricks in the book?
(I can't, offhand, figure out if they got a special uniform, but I do hope so.)
They now use a more civil law-ish approach to this.