X Corp, the parent company of Twitter, has filed a lawsuit against four unknown individuals for scraping data from the social media platform. The lawsuit, filed in Dallas County District Court in Texas, alleges that the defendants scraped Twitter data without authorization and “unjustly enriched” themselves at X Corp’s expense.
The complaint contends that these anonymous individuals benefitted unfairly from Twitter data and improperly obtained information from Texas citizens, possibly by collaborating with Texas data processing facilities. It claims that scraping affects websites and mobile applications like Twitter by overloading servers with too many queries, resulting in a terrible user experience.
Twitter recognizes a lack of knowledge about the defendants’ names, but says four anonymous defendants have been identified only by their IP addresses from Fremont, California, and Atlanta, Georgia, and its legal team hopes to learn more about them during the trial’s discovery phase.
X Corp is seeking more than $1 million in damages from the defendants.
The sources for this piece include an article in TheRegister.
