Twitter sued four entities for maliciously grabbing data after restricting the number of users reading.

CTOnews.com, July 13 (Xinhua)-- Twitter has sued four unknown entities in Dallas County District Court in Texas, accusing them of data crawling (data scraping), which automatically obtains large amounts of data from Twitter sites, according to local TV station WFAA. Twitter said that the defendants'IP addresses sent far more registration requests than any one person could send, seriously consuming Twitter server resources.

CTOnews.com has previously reported that Twitter has recently been criticized for limiting the number of tweets users can read per day, which Musk has explained is to prevent data crawling. "there are several entities trying to crawl all the tweets that have been posted in a short period of time, which is why we have to set restrictions," he said in a reply to a tweet referring to the data crawling lawsuit on Thursday. "

Notably, shortly after Musk restricted user readings, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta launched Twitter's competing Threads app, which attracted more than 100 million registrations within five days of launch. Twitter has threatened to sue Meta, accusing it of hiring former employees who had access to its trade secrets and other confidential information.