The only one that I think would be tricky would be the troll farms, where people use racks of phones to hold dozens of profiles.
If they had restricted the API to prevent a bot from doing anything relating to posting or retweeting, then that would (correct me if wrong) prevent all bots in the first place aside from 'clicker' bots, and IMO that would leave a different trace that could be noticed.
Either way, when the value of the company is tied to the number of human users for ad revenue purposes, there's not much excuse to give bots or those who try to implement them a hard time.
The only one that I think would be tricky would be the troll farms, where people use racks of phones to hold dozens of profiles.
If they had restricted the API to prevent a bot from doing anything relating to posting or retweeting, then that would (correct me if wrong) prevent all bots in the first place aside from 'clicker' bots, and IMO that would leave a different trace that could be noticed.
Either way, when the value of the company is tied to the number of human users for ad revenue purposes, there's not much excuse to give bots or those who try to implement them a hard time.