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The
complaint by Musk's X Corp, which owns Twitter, alleged that the
entities indulged in "unlawfully scraping data" and sought
monetary relief of more than $1 million, the lawsuit said.
The daily limits imposed in July by Twitter sparked widespread
criticism and have helped Threads, the recently launched rival
service by Meta that crossed 100 million signups in a record
five days.
Musk, meanwhile, reiterated the reason for data limits in a
reply to a tweet that referenced the data-scraping lawsuit.
"Several entities tried to scrape every tweet ever made in a
short period of time. That is why we had to put rate limits in
place," Musk tweeted.
Twitter did not respond to a Reuters request for comment on the
lawsuit outside regular business hours.
The volume of automated signup requests from the four
defendants' IP addresses far exceeded what any single person
could send to a person, which severely taxed Twitter's servers,
the lawsuit claimed.
The case is X Corp Vs John Does 1-4, in the district court of
Dallas County, Texas, no. DC-23-09157.
(Reporting by Shubham Kalia and Juby Babu in Bengaluru; Editing
by Savio D'Souza and Arun Koyyur)
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