Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, described the decision as a "temporary emergency measure" on Friday. Users will now need a Twitter account to access messages. In order to read material on the site, users will be required to either create an account or authenticate an existing account.
Our service was being compromised so frequently by data theft that it was detrimental to regular users! Tweeted by Musk. Additionally, he stated that "extremely aggressively, the user experience is being affected" by hundreds or more organisations harvesting Twitter data.
Musk has already expressed his distaste for companies like ChatGPT's owner, OpenAI, which uses Twitter data to train its big language models. He stated, "We will unquestionably pursue legal action against individuals who stole our data and look forward to seeing them in court, which is (optimistically) 2 to 3 years from now.
Musk's attorney, Alex Spiro, requested an audit of Microsoft's (MSFT.O) usage of Twitter material in a letter to the company's CEO, Satya Nadella, in May. Spiro claimed that the Windows developer had broken the terms of the contract governing the use of Twitter data.
In order to increase subscription revenue, the firm has implemented a number of initiatives, like adding verification checkmarks to the Twitter Blue programme, to entice back advertisers that deserted the site under Musk's control.
In an effort to expand beyond digital advertising, Twitter stated earlier in the month that it intended to concentrate on video, creative, and corporate relationships. The application programming interface (API) of Twitter, which is utilised by other apps and academics, has also started to be charged to users.
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