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Twitter has launched a lawsuit in Texas against four unidentified businesses for data scraping, according to a local TV station, explaining why the Elon Musk-owned social network recently imposed daily limitations on the quantity of tweets a user may view.
The amount of automated sign-up requests from the four defendants' IP addresses considerably beyond what any one person could send to a person, according to WFAA, an ABC-affiliated TV station, severely taxing Twitter's systems.
According to the complaint, it was filed on July 6 in the District Court of Dallas County, Texas.
Reuters was unable to confirm whether a lawsuit had been filed immediately. Outside of regular business hours, Twitter did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment.
Musk has blamed data scraping for restricting the number of tweets various tiers of accounts might view each day beginning early July, a move that has drawn significant criticism.
He reinforced that explanation in response to a tweet about the data scraping case on Thursday.
"In a short period of time, several entities attempted to scrape every tweet ever made." That is why we had to impose rate caps," Musk tweeted.
NEWS: Twitter has filed a lawsuit against 4 entitities located in Dallas, Texas, accusing them of scraping large amounts of data.
— T(w)itter Daily News (@TitterDaily) July 13, 2023
"These requests have severely burdened X Corp’s servers. and degraded the user experience for millions of X Corp.’s customers,” the suit says. pic.twitter.com/s2yZ2Ps3t0
He would not, however, confirm or deny that a lawsuit had been filed.
Musk's decision to impose the reading restriction occurred only days before Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms debuted its Threads programme, which directly competed with Twitter.
Threads has recently surpassed 100 million sign-ups in just five days after its inception.
Twitter has vowed to sue Meta, accusing the company of recruiting former workers with access to trade secrets and other sensitive information.