Elon Musk said on Saturday that the drastic action was necessary due to “extreme levels of data scraping.”
Post Date – Saturday, July 23 at 10:45am
New Delhi: Twitter has stopped providing browsing access on its web platform to people without accounts, who must first create an account to view tweets.
Elon Musk said on Saturday that the drastic action was necessary due to “extreme levels of data scraping.”
However, the move could backfire, as search engine algorithms could rank Twitter content lower if the tweets are not publicly accessible.
Musk also said it was a temporary emergency measure.
“So much of our data has been stolen that the quality of service has degraded for the average user,” the Twitter owner posted.
“Almost every company working on artificial intelligence, from startups to some of the largest corporations on the planet, is scraping massive amounts of data,” he claims.
“It’s pretty annoying to have to rush a lot of servers online for some AI startup’s overvalued valuation,” Musk said.
Like many of Twitter’s recent changes, the latest move could easily backfire.
“Twitter understandably wants to protect its data from free access, although this move will undoubtedly reduce Twitter’s influence and exposure of external links/embeds, and raise some privacy concerns. Hope to find a better long-term Solutions,” @TitterDaily posted.
Musk’s move is aimed at preventing artificial intelligence tools from searching Twitter.
