Elon Musk claims that Twitter will limit the number of tweets users may read. Details
Elon Musk, the owner of the microblogging service Twitter, said that the company is restricting the number of tweets that different accounts may read each day in order to prevent “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation” after the network had a significant worldwide outage on Saturday night.
According to Musk, verified Twitter accounts previously had a 6,000 post daily restriction, while unverified accounts were limited to 600 posts daily and new unverified accounts to 300. Musk noted in another article without going into greater detail that these reading restrictions were then changed 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.
As a temporary emergency solution, Twitter decided to make it necessary for users to have an account in order to access tweets. Musk endorsed this decision. Musk said that at least a thousand companies were “extremely aggressively” harvesting Twitter data, which was negatively affecting user experience.
Following a Saturday outage that affected hundreds of people, this message was made. During the outage’s height at 8:47 PM, about 7,500 users on the social networking site reported difficulties using the app.
On Saturday morning, Twitter barred visitors without accounts from using its online platform to browse. It wasn’t apparent whether the most recent downtime was due to the backend modifications required to carry out the previous relocation.
According to Elon Musk, it was a short-term emergency solution. “We were seeing so much data theft that it was impairing service for regular consumers. Nearly all AI companies, from startups to some of the largest companies on Earth, were collecting enormous quantities of data, the owner of Twitter said.
Musk has previously indicated his unhappiness with artificial intelligence companies utilizing Twitter’s data to train their huge language models, such as OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT.
