Paid or verified accounts, which have a blue check mark, can now view a maximum of 10,000 messages in a day. Existing unauthenticated accounts and new unauthenticated accounts will be capped at 1,000 and 500 messages, respectively. Musk had communicated lower numbers earlier on Saturday, but adjusted them later in the day.
According to Musk, there are hundreds of organizations that scrape data from Twitter in an “extremely aggressive manner”. Earlier, the Twitter boss already complained about AI companies, such as ChatGPT builder OpenAI, because they would collect data from Twitter on a large scale to train their language models. According to Musk, these practices lead to large crowds on the platform, which compromises the service for regular users.
The Twitter CEO did not say how long the temporary measures will apply. On Friday, Musk had already announced that from now on only users who are logged in can see tweets. Even then he spoke of an “emergency measure to prevent the looting of data”.
Over the course of Saturday, Twitter suffered an outage for a period of time, causing problems for tens of thousands of people worldwide while using the social media platform. It is not clear whether the new measures are related to that malfunction.
2023-07-01 21:00:00
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