[liberationtech] Twitter robots now block Internet Archive?

Bill Woodcock woody at pch.net
Sat Apr 8 19:22:11 PDT 2017


FWIW, I just asked Brewster, and he said that it's "always been blocked."

    
                -Bill


> On Apr 9, 2017, at 02:26, Yosem Companys <companys at stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> From: Christopher Philippo <toff at mac.com>
> 
> It used to be that one could access archives of Twitter posts, and if there were no archive of a particular Tweet or Twitter feed one could create it.
> 
> That doesn’t seem to be the case now?
> 
> https://web-beta.archive.org/web/*/https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
> 
> When and why did the change occur, if this is not merely a momentary glitch?
> 
> Chris Philippo
> 
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