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Then just eschew the Twitter API and scrape the website, then tell Twitter to go pound sand. Doesn't do anything about getting hit with a frivolous lawsuit but that's a different topic.


That would violate the Twitter ToS, too: https://twitter.com/tos


Terms of Service never stops a unicorn.


If their TOS prevents someone from taking a photograph of their website on a screen, it probably wouldn't hold up in court.


Then will Politwoops take Twitter to court for fair use of the API?


Probably not Politwoops, because they were using the API. But perhaps a successor that did not use the API, but scraped and screenshoted only might have a good chance.




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