WaPo article: https://archive.is/wip/sgViP
Company owner Elon Musk tweeted that the change was a “temporary emergency measure” to deter third-party scraping of data from the social media platform. “We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!” Musk wrote.
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Temporary as in the "special military operation" in Ukraine to misquote someone in one of the bug reports. Or temporary as in the UK's Income Tax. There is nothing more permanent than a temporary measure.