2026-01-16 08:33:44

The tightening of Twitter API policies has directly impacted the survival space of two types of products. One is InfoFi applications, which originally relied on official data interfaces for real-time information services and now face disruptions; the other is automated crawling bots, such as scripts that automatically generate memes or push promotional content after monitoring influential accounts, which are now blocked.

Interestingly, this crackdown hasn't truly eliminated these tools. The crawling community has long had countermeasures—shifting from reliance on official APIs to autonomous crawling, deploying local crawlers, and using proxy pools to circumvent restrictions. In simple terms, when policies tighten, they just change their disguise, transforming from "official data tools" to "unofficial data collection tools." The technical approach changes, but the ecosystem continues to evolve. This also reflects the resilient adaptability of Web3 developers—when one policy blocks a route, they find another ten ways around it.

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RealYieldWizard

· 9h ago

Haha, policies are just paper tigers; they can't stop us. Developers have long rolled up their sleeves and figured out solutions. Switching to different disguises to continue harvesting data—this trick is brilliant. Web3 people are just capable of messing around. API gets blocked? No problem, the crawler community has plenty of tricks... This ecosystem's resilience is truly amazing. The tighter the restrictions, the more aggressively they find ways around them. This is the real face of Web3. There are countless ways to bypass restrictions. I just want to see what Twitter can do in the end.

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PretendingToReadDocs

· 9h ago

The higher the Tao, the higher the devil; these people always find a loophole to exploit.

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AirdropFatigue

· 9h ago

Haha, if I had known it would come to this, the API restriction trick would have been played out long ago. Experienced players have already prepared Plan B, just changing tactics to keep playing. The essence of Web3 people is guerrilla warfare; if you block me, I just shift elsewhere. Now the web crawler community will be bragging again, haha. Instead of banning, wouldn't it be better to let them do it openly? It might actually be harder to track.

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AirdropHunterWang

· 9h ago

Yeah, this time it's really a case of the magic being one foot higher than the master. Changing disguises, it's just a one-second thing. The API is dead, but the crawlers are still alive, and they're even more wild. This is what Web3 should look like—unstoppable. The ban on the way is still too naive. Humans are still playing cat and mouse games, making it even harder for big influencers to be regulated. So, tech is truly unstoppable. That's why I believe in decentralized solutions.

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