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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I don't have 100 billion dollars, but I'm still right all the time. If people don't want to use that, and who could blame them, be my guest. It's occasionally frustrating but mainly no skin off my back.