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Twitter is limiting the number of tweets that certain accounts can read per day in order to deter “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, according to Executive Chair Elon Musk in a post on the social media network on Saturday.
According to Musk, verified accounts were initially limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, while unverified users will be limited to 600 posts per day, with new unverified accounts limited to 300.
Musk added in a subsequent post that the temporary reading limit was then upped to 10,000 posts per day for verified users, 1,000 posts per day for unverified users, and 500 posts per day for new unverified users.
Previously, Twitter announced that in order to view tweets, users must have a Twitter account, a decision Musk described on Friday as a “temporary emergency measure.”
Musk claimed that hundreds of firms, if not thousands, were harvesting Twitter data “extremely aggressively,” negatively harming user experience.
Musk had previously expressed his concern with artificial intelligence startups such as OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, for exploiting Twitter data to train big language models.
According to the outage tracking website Downdetector.com, Twitter was offline for thousands of users on Saturday morning.
During the peak of the outage at 11:17 a.m. ET, about 7,500 users on the social media site reported difficulties using the app.
The social media network has already made a number of moves to reclaim advertisers who had left Twitter under Musk’s control, as well as to increase subscription revenue by including verification check marks into the Twitter Blue program.
Source:IE
