Do you have an agreement with social media platforms to collect data?
No, Social Media platforms heavily limit the data available through the official channels and how often they get updated. The Ninth Circuit Court ruling in the case HiQ Labs v. LinkedIn, 938 F.3d 985 (9th Cir. 2019) has established that scraping data from publicly available websites is legal in the framework of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, allowing us to obtain updated and accurate data without having to use the official channels.