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Musk moves to block Twitter ‘pillagers’

require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that owner Elon Musk has called a “temporary emergency measure”.

“We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!” Musk said in a tweet.He added that hundreds of organisations or more were scraping Twitter data “extremely aggressively”, affecting user experience. “We absolutely will take legal action against those who stole our data & look forward seeing them in court, which is 2 to 3 years from now,” he tweeted.

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