<p>Twitter has filed a lawsuit against four unnamed entities in Texas for data scraping, a local TV station said on Wednesday, explaining why the Elon Musk-owned social network had recently placed daily limits on the number of tweets a user could read.</p>.<p><em>WFAA</em>, an ABC-affiliated TV station, reported that the volume of automated sign-up requests from the four defendants' IP addresses far exceeded what any single person could send to a person, which severely taxed Twitter's servers.</p>.<p>It said the lawsuit was filed on July 6 in the District Court of Dallas County in Texas.</p>.<p><strong>Also read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/business/musk-believes-china-is-on-team-humanity-when-it-comes-to-ai-1236504.html" target="_blank">Musk believes China is on ‘team humanity’ when it comes to AI</a></strong></p>.<p><em>Reuters </em>could not immediately verify if a lawsuit had been filed. Twitter did not immediately respond to a <em>Reuters </em>request for comment outside regular business hours.</p>.<p>Musk has blamed data scraping for limiting, since early July, how many tweets different tiers of accounts could read each day, a move that sparked widespread criticism.</p>.<p>He reiterated that reasoning on Thursday in reply to a tweet that referenced the data scraping lawsuit.</p>.<p>"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.</p>.<p>However, he did not confirm or deny that a lawsuit had been filed.</p>.<p>Musk's move to place the readership cap came days before Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms launched a direct challenge to Twitter with its Threads app.</p>.<p>Threads has since raced to cross 100 million sign-ups within five days of launch.</p>.<p>Twitter has threatened to sue Meta, accusing it of hiring former employees who had access to trade secrets and other confidential information.</p>
<p>Twitter has filed a lawsuit against four unnamed entities in Texas for data scraping, a local TV station said on Wednesday, explaining why the Elon Musk-owned social network had recently placed daily limits on the number of tweets a user could read.</p>.<p><em>WFAA</em>, an ABC-affiliated TV station, reported that the volume of automated sign-up requests from the four defendants' IP addresses far exceeded what any single person could send to a person, which severely taxed Twitter's servers.</p>.<p>It said the lawsuit was filed on July 6 in the District Court of Dallas County in Texas.</p>.<p><strong>Also read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/business/musk-believes-china-is-on-team-humanity-when-it-comes-to-ai-1236504.html" target="_blank">Musk believes China is on ‘team humanity’ when it comes to AI</a></strong></p>.<p><em>Reuters </em>could not immediately verify if a lawsuit had been filed. Twitter did not immediately respond to a <em>Reuters </em>request for comment outside regular business hours.</p>.<p>Musk has blamed data scraping for limiting, since early July, how many tweets different tiers of accounts could read each day, a move that sparked widespread criticism.</p>.<p>He reiterated that reasoning on Thursday in reply to a tweet that referenced the data scraping lawsuit.</p>.<p>"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.</p>.<p>However, he did not confirm or deny that a lawsuit had been filed.</p>.<p>Musk's move to place the readership cap came days before Mark Zuckerberg's Meta Platforms launched a direct challenge to Twitter with its Threads app.</p>.<p>Threads has since raced to cross 100 million sign-ups within five days of launch.</p>.<p>Twitter has threatened to sue Meta, accusing it of hiring former employees who had access to trade secrets and other confidential information.</p>