Case Study: StockTwits achieves complete protection from content scraping bots and improved performance with Distil Networks

StockTwits - Customer Case Study

StockTwits is a real-time social network for investors and traders — creator of the $(TICKER) tag — that licenses its public data to banks, hedge funds and institutions. The company came under persistent, stealthy bot attacks that scraped site content and accessed its user API, threatening its data-driven revenue; existing CDN/DDoS tools could not stop the repeated scraping and StockTwits needed a proactive solution that wouldn’t degrade performance.

StockTwits deployed the Distil Cloud to fingerprint and block malicious machines while accelerating site and API performance; setup was fast, the system auto-learned normal traffic patterns, and Distil also curtailed click fraud and ad spying. The result: content-scraping bots were eliminated, licensing revenue and site performance were protected, and StockTwits regained the ability to focus on product innovation.

StockTwits

Chris Corriveau

CTO