According to information from the X community, multiple accounts related to cryptocurrency users and projects were frozen by the platform’s officials this morning. This includes Chinese KOLs such as Sha Po Lang, Wang Xiao Er, CryptoWizard, Gake, as well as the official GMGN account and its founder Haze, and the ElizaOS official account and its founder Shaw, among others. There has been no official statement or response so far.
However, industry insiders speculate that this series of account suspensions may be related to the improper use of third-party crawlers (non-official APIs).
According to KOL AB Kuai.Dong, due to the extremely high pricing of X’s corporate API, retrieving 200 million tweets requires a monthly fee of approximately $200,000. If a project needs to handle 1 billion tweets per month, the cost could reach as high as $1 million per month, which is unaffordable for startups or small to medium-sized platforms. As a result, many startups choose to bypass the expensive API fees by using third-party crawlers to obtain data at a lower cost.
This wave of account suspensions may be X platform’s beginning to take strict enforcement actions against data crawling behaviors. When X’s algorithms detect abnormal traffic (such as high-frequency requests, unusual IPs, or repetitive behaviors), these crawler accounts are flagged as violations and subsequently frozen in bulk. Some KOLs may have been mistakenly identified by X’s algorithms as part of a “marketing matrix” or “related accounts” due to their frequent mentions of gmgn, ai16z, or interactions with them, resulting in collateral bans.
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