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Crawlers and scrapper bots consume a fuckload of traffic, that much is true. But I think it's a bit too late, there's already enough "twitter warehouse of posts in X language" to feed most AI needs, at least for coming up with short answers.
Also, I can't believe Elon did something that could be generally seen as a good thing overall (forcing people to spend less time on twitter)