‘Temporary limitations’ for reading Twitter tweets are announced by Elon Musk
Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, on Saturday announced new guidelines for the social media site that place «temporary limits» on the number of postings that can be seen each day before immediately changing them.
Verified accounts are only allowed to read 6,000 posts per day, while unverified accounts are only allowed to read 600 posts per day, according to Musk’s initial announcement on Saturday afternoon. There is a daily restriction of 300 postings for new, unverified accounts, he stated.
Musk tweeted that rate limitations would be «increasing soon» to 8,000 for verified users, 800 for unverified ones, and 400 for new unverified accounts within two hours of the announcement.
He tweeted that the figures have increased to 10,000, 1,000, and 500, respectively, three hours later.
The modifications were required to «address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation,» Musk tweeted.
The modifications were announced in detail after numerous Twitter users reported problems loading tweets on Saturday morning, including seeing error messages that read «rate limit exceeded.» As users allegedly met the new limits on Saturday, the hashtag «TwitterDown» became popular.
