Twitter Implements Limits on Post Reading to Counter Data Scraping, System Manipulation, Says Elon Musk

Twitter’s Executive Chair, Elon Musk, announced on Saturday that the social media platform is enforcing restrictions on the number of tweets accounts can read in a day to combat “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation.

Initially, verified accounts were limited to reading 6,000 posts daily, while unverified accounts faced a cap of 600 posts per day, and new unverified accounts were restricted to 300 posts.

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

However, Musk later updated the temporary limitations, raising the reading capacity 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. Specific details regarding this change were not provided in the post.

Earlier, Twitter had announced that users would be required to have an account on the platform to view tweets, a measure Musk referred to as a “temporary emergency measure” on Friday.

Musk expressed concern that numerous organizations were engaging in aggressive data scraping on Twitter, leading to a negative impact on user experience.

He had previously expressed dissatisfaction with artificial intelligence firms like OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, for using Twitter’s data extensively to train their large language models.

During the outage on Saturday morning, Twitter experienced issues for thousands of users, with nearly 7,500 users reporting difficulties accessing the app at its peak around 11:17 AM ET, as per outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

In an effort to win back advertisers who left the platform under Musk’s ownership and boost subscription revenue, Twitter has taken several measures, such as integrating verification check marks into the Twitter Blue program.

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