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For some who may be confused about this: Twitter (err... "X") is alledging that the scraper company explicitly agreed to their ToS, and is pointing to the company's twitter profile as proof. Since they registered the account in the first place, they had to affirmatively agree.

Ordinarily I would say scraping is legal, but only because there's no agreement between the scraping party and the service being scraped that states the contrary. In this case, the scraper agreed not to do so with Twitter, then breached that agreement.

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