Twitter limits the number of messages users can read per day. Owner Elon Musk said this on the social network on Saturday.
Paying users could view a maximum of 6,000 posts per day, for non-paying users Twitter set the limit at 600 posts. New, free accounts can only read 300 posts.
According to Musk, the intervention is necessary “to prevent extreme amounts of data scraping (massive automatic data collection, ed.) And manipulation of the system”. For that reason, Twitter had already made it impossible for people without an account to read messages on Friday. That measure would be “temporary,” according to Musk.
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
– Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
– Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
– New unverified accounts to 300/day— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
Many Twitter users reported outages on the platform on Saturday. For example, several users get the message: ‘Sorry, but your account is limited. Please wait a moment and then try again.” Whether this has to do with the changes to the site, or simply means that users have already reached their daily limit, is not immediately clear.
Until now, Twitter has relied on the accessibility of tweets to attract new users, for example by people who send interesting tweets to unregistered friends. Since Musk, the founder of electric car maker Tesla and aerospace company SpaceX, took over the social networking site, he’s made several major changes, including the paid subscription “Twitter Blue.”
2023-07-01 19:25:28
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