Musk says Twitter will limit how many tweets users can read

Washington, July 2 (BNA): Twitter is limiting the number of tweets different accounts can read per day, CEO Elon Musk said in a post on the social media platform Saturday, to discourage “extreme levels” of data collection and system manipulation.

Verified accounts were initially limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, Musk said, adding that unverified accounts would be limited to 600 posts per day with a cap of 300 new unverified accounts.

Musk said in a separate post that the temporary reading limit was later increased 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.

Previously, Twitter announced that it would require users to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a move Musk on Friday called a “temporary emergency measure.”

Musk said that hundreds of organizations or more were scraping Twitter data “very aggressively,” which affected the user experience.

Musk has previously expressed his displeasure with AI companies such as OpenAI, owner of ChatGPT, for using Twitter data to train its large language models.

Twitter was down for thousands of users Saturday morning, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Nearly 7,500 users across the social media platform reported issues accessing the app during the peak outage around 11:17 a.m. ET.

The social media platform previously took a number of steps to win back advertisers who left Twitter under Musk’s ownership and to increase subscription revenue by making verification check tags part of the Twitter Blue program.

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