Twitter CTO Elon Musk on Thursday revealed the reason behind the latest lawsuit filed against four entities for scraping Twitter data. He justified that several entities attempted to scrape tweets from the platform within a short period of time and “that is why we had to put rate limits in place.” Twitter users are affected by recent changes and moved to other social media platforms.
According to a filing in the District Court of Dallas County, Elon Musk’s X Corp. the company that owns Twitter — has filed a lawsuit against four entities. X Corp. has accused these four people or entities of scraping Twitter data
The petition filed on July 6 referred to four defendants as John Doe 1, John Doe 2, John Doe 3, and John Doe 4, and identified by their IP addresses. It says the defendants tried to scrape data unlawfully from the social media platform and even contracted with entities maintaining data processing facilities in Dallas County, Texas.
Elon Musk’s X Corp seeks $1 million in monetary relief from separate entities and other damages. The firm said millions of requests severely burdened X Corp’s servers and degraded the user experience for millions of Twitter customers.