@cassem @sophie Scraping the web gets vastly less usable results than having access to actual structured information like post time, boosts, connections to other profiles, posting behavior and so on.
I do machine learning for a living. I wouldn't even attempt using web-scraped social data for analysis unless I was only looking for the simplest metrics like word count.
@lianna @sophie fair enough. I would say, still not a reason to shame or chide someone else for their decision to use one, the other, or both. Still arrives at you do you.