(EFE).- Twitter offered this Tuesday explanations about the recent limits of use announced by its owner, Elon Musk, and said that they seek to combat bots and other “bad actors” who engage in data mining to “build artificial intelligence (AI) models.”
Musk announced a reading wall last Saturday that limits the number of daily tweets that verified (10,000) and unverified (1,000) accounts can see, with a further restriction for newly created non-paying (500) accounts. after which thousands of users reported access problems.
In a statement, Twitter said it is taking “extreme measures to remove spam y bots of the platform” and that this is what this new wall is about, which will be “temporary” and of which he did not inform in advance because “it would have allowed bad actors to alter their behavior to evade detection.”
On Saturday, the Downdetector monitoring page collected 7,000 reports of problems accessing the social network, which have been normalized since then.
“At a high level, we are working to prevent these accounts from 1) extracting public data from people’s Twitter to build AI models and 2) manipulating people and conversations on the platform in various ways,” the technology added.
On Saturday, the Downdetector monitoring page collected 7,000 reports of problems accessing the social network, which have been normalized since then, and this Tuesday there were no reports.
Many users posted the error message that appeared on the platform, indicating that they had reached their daily reading limit.
Twitter said Tuesday that the restrictions currently affect “a small percentage of people” and that it will send an update when “the work is complete.”
In addition, he said, the “advertising effects have been minimal for advertisers.”
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