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0 pointsdanShumway2y ago0 comments

> are bootstrapping new social networks by mass-scraping Twitter data

I am 99% sure that this is not a real thing and that you're using all of these words incorrectly.

When was Substack illegally scraping Twitter data? What Twitter data is being used to bootstrap Threads?

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lopkeny12ko2y ago

> When was Substack illegally scraping Twitter data?

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1644638493883211779

> What Twitter data is being used to bootstrap Threads?

I have no proof of this. It's just speculation. I also don't have an iDevice so I can't install the app and look for myself.

But the timing of Twitter's rate limiting this week, combined with Elon's clarification that Twitter data is being mass-scraped, combined with the launch of Threads this week...can't be a coincidence, can it?

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