Elon Musk said the move was a 'temporary emergency measure' against organisations that were scraping Twitter data 'extremely aggressively', affecting user experience.
A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed Twitter logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
"We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!" Musk said in a tweet. "We absolutely will take legal action against those who stole our data & look forward seeing them in court, which is 2 to 3 years from now," he said.
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