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		VWWHFSfQ on April 18, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms > a very unique type of site if bots make up the majority of traffic Pretty much Twitter and the majority of such websites.

YPCrumble on April 18, 2022 [–]

Do you really believe bots make up a significant amount of Twitter’s operating cost? Like I said they’re just accessing cached tweets and are rate limited. How can the bot usage possibly be more than a small part of twitter’s operating cost?

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