The Terms expressly prohibit accessing or searching the Services by any automated means without prior written consent from X, including crawling and scraping in any form for any purpose. The prohibition also covers circumventing technical limitations, probing system vulnerabilities, tampering with non-public areas, and using jailbreaking or prompt engineering or injection to override platform safety or security controls.
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This provision establishes the operational boundaries for automated and technical access to X's Services and explicitly addresses AI-era access methods including prompt engineering and injection alongside traditional scraping and crawling prohibitions. Violations of these terms also trigger the liquidated damages clause for bulk post access.
⚠ Unauthorized automated access or scraping constitutes a Terms violation and may trigger account suspension, liquidated damages of $15,000 per 1,000,000 posts accessed, and other legal remedies
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Compare across platforms →"You may not do any of the following while accessing or using the Services: (i) access, tamper with, or use non-public areas of the Services, our computer systems, or the technical delivery systems of our providers; (ii) probe, scan, or test the vulnerability of any system or network or breach or circumvent any security or authentication measures; (iii) access or search or attempt to access or search the Services by any means (automated or otherwise) other than through our currently available, published interfaces that are provided by us (and only pursuant to the applicable terms and conditions), unless you have been specifically allowed to do so in a separate agreement with us (NOTE: crawling or scraping the Services in any form, for any purpose without our prior written consent is expressly prohibited); (iv) attempt to circumvent, manipulate, or disable systems and Services, including through "jailbreaking", "prompt engineering or injection", or other methods intended to override or manipulate safety, security or other platform controls.Excerpt from X's Terms of Service
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This provision establishes the operational boundaries for automated and technical access to X's Services and explicitly addresses AI-era access methods including prompt engineering and injection alongside traditional scraping and crawling prohibitions. Violations of these terms also trigger the liquidated damages clause for bulk post access.
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