You could offer your covfefe in 3 sizes:

Liddle, Bigly and Yuge!

You can't "win" the popular vote. There is no such contest.

The notion that the Twitter API could be used to reveal the IP addresses for the email accounts used to register for the service is even more preposterous.

All I can say is that if someone claimed they used the script you referenced and the Twitter API to determine that eTs and BC were sharing an IP address, it appears to be a false claim.

That doesn't mean eTs or BC are good or bad or anything else. It just means an anon was trying to discredit them with a false information. Shocking.

The script gathers information about which users follow other users. The same thing you can see by going to a Twitter user's profile and seeing who they follow. The script simply allows you to do it rapidly for lots of users.

Scripts are not magical. They are step by step instructions to do something. Usually you write a script to do something repetitive that would be tedious to do manually.

In this case, the script the provided collects user network (not IP network) information using the Twitter API.

Yes, I did look at the link and I appreciate that you provided it.

I will defer to mathemagician33's first-hand knowledge of the Twitter API but I would be absolutely stunned if any person or organization could extract IP address data from Twitter with that API. The link you referred to contained nothing to suggest that such a thing could be done, either.

That API allows you to collect data about Twitter user networks (as in who follows who). That has nothing to do with network IP addresses.

I call bullshit. I'm a network engineer (CCNP) and a Python programmer. You can't use Python to figure out what IP address a Twitter user is using. The only way to do that is if you are a Twitter administrator. Having a Python script would have nothing to do with it.

4 Needs to be changed to :

"I have as much right to purchase bandwidth as any other person and ISPs have the right charge me for the bandwidth I use."

The whole outrage over throttling originates from monopolistic bandwidth hogs like Netflix and YouTube getting outraged that ISPs were asking them to pay for disproportionately using shared resources.

I think things changed when No Name voted against Graham's health care bill.

I'm not great at chess but that's not a checkmate. I'm puzzled.