Twitter Sues Four Unknown Entities In Texas Over Data Mining

Twitter sued illegal data miners in Texas. (photo: twitter @TitterDaily)

JAKARTA - Twitter filed a lawsuit against four unidentified entities in Texas over last week's data mining practices. This is a step that explains why Elon Musk's social network recently imposed daily restrictions on the number of tweets that users can read.

The lawsuit filed by Musk's X Corp, which owns Twitter, claims that the entities were involved in "illegal mining of data" and demanded compensation of more than $1 million, reads the lawsuit.

Several entities tried to scrape every tweet ever made in a short period of time. That is why we had to put rate limits in place.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 13, 2023

Several entities tried to script every tweet ever made in a short period of time. That is why we had to put limits in place.

The daily limit imposed in July by Twitter drew widespread criticism and has helped Threads, a competitor service newly launched by Meta, and recorded more than 100 million registrations in a short time, in just five days.

Meanwhile, Musk emphasized the reasons behind the data restriction in a response to a tweet that stated the data mining lawsuit.

"Many entities try to mine every tweet ever created in a short time. That's why we have to impose a speed limit," Musk tweeted.

Meanwhile, Twitter did not provide a comment from Reuters regarding the lawsuit.

The lawsuit claims that the volume of automatic registration requests from the address of the four defendants far exceeds what one person can send, causing a heavy burden on the Twitter server.