The $500K Tool That Got Me a Cease-and-Desist from 𝕏

[vinay]

Stop DMing me—I’ve got nothing to sell.

If you’re curious about what happened next, here’s everything you need to know:

An Offer from 𝕏

If you read my last post, you know how this all started: I built a tool that scraped 2 million profiles a day from 𝕏, made over $500K in license sales, and landed myself a cease-and-desist from their legal team. For a while, it felt like my world had flipped upside down. The cease-and-desist was no joke—a 13-page legal document outlining every way I’d violated their Terms of Service and federal laws. I had to bring in a lawyer just to figure out what my next move should be. The stakes were high…