Comments by "Technolus" (@technolus5742) on "The sad truth about Twitter’s rate limit" video.

  1. It's data being collected by bots that are requesting content as if they were a regular human user (instead of using the programming interface that some websites/services provide). Often programming interfaces are provided because it saves on data transfers (they don't have to load an entire page filled with layout related scaffolding, they just send the bare minimum data); it also makes things more reliable so that they can change the page without breaking all the bots that depend on that information; and it allows for easier access control for rate limiting and for 3rd party service providers to cater to their own users by having those users sign in trough that third party with their own accounts to access their own private data.
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