Twitter is limiting how many tweets per day various accounts can read, to discourage "extreme levels" of data scraping and system manipulation, Executive Chair Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform on Saturday.
Verified accounts were initially limited to reading 6,000
posts a day, Musk said, adding that unverified accounts will be limited to 600
posts a day with new unverified accounts limited to 300.
The temporary reading limitation was later increased to
10,000 posts per day for verified users, 1,000 posts per day for unverified and
500 posts per day for new unverified users, Musk said in a separate post
without providing further details
Previously, Twitter had announced it will require users to
have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move that Musk
on Friday called a "temporary emergency measure."
Musk had said that hundreds of organizations or more were
scraping Twitter data "extremely aggressively", impacting user
experience.
Musk had earlier expressed displeasure with artificial
intelligence firms like OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, for using Twitter's data
to train their large language models.
Twitter was down for thousands of users on Saturday morning,
according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
Nearly 7,500 users across the social media platform reported
issues with accessing the app during the peak of the outage at around 11:17am
ET (8:47 pm IST).
The social media platform had previously taken a number of
steps to win back advertisers who left Twitter under Musk's ownership and to
boost subscription revenue by making verification check marks a part of the
Twitter Blue programme. © Reuters