So it turns out while everyone was freaking out about the tweet rate limits two weeks ago, there was a very big reason for this. Some of which we are finding out why, but also opens the door to new questions.
A new lawsuit has surfaced from X Corp (which owns Twitter), is suing (4) John Doe Individuals or entities in what appears to be a very large & coordinated data scraping operation on Twitter & its users.
The interesting part about this lawsuit states the claims against the defendants were filed in Dallas County because they allegedly "committed acts… with entities that maintain data processing facilities in Dallas County, Texas… including, on information and belief, unlawfully scraping data associated with Texas residents."
X Corp is seeking monetary relief of MORE than $1,000,000
Twitter was not able to identify who or what entity was doing this, but did identify (4) IP addresses responsible.
For the most part, an IP address tells you the city, ZIP code, or area code of your ISP, as well as your ISP's name.
The John Doe IP Addresses were identified:
Defendant #1: 23.239.23.31.
Defendant #2 194.195.210.128
Defendant #3 23.239.17.3
Defendant #4 is 23.239.20.149.
My Thoughts:
This was a widely coordinated attack & attempt to
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Harvest data on millions of Americans
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Severely impair Twitters being able to use Twitter.
Something this big & coordinated, it will be verrrry interesting to find out who these (4) John Doe’s are, which should be discovered in trial by working with the appropriate agencies & the ISP.
I have a feeling that the governments hands are all over this.
https://t.me/realjust_human/13870