Elon Musk, the Executive Chair of Twitter, has revealed new restrictions on the number of tweets users can read per day. The purpose behind these limitations is to discourage excessive data scraping and manipulation on the platform. Previously, verified accounts had a daily limit of 6,000 posts, while unverified accounts were limited to 600 posts. However, these limits have now been revised. Verified users can read up to 10,000 posts per day, unverified users have a limit of 1,000 posts per day, and new unverified users are restricted to 500 posts per day.
Musk expressed concerns about organizations aggressively scraping data from Twitter, which can have a negative impact on the overall user experience. He believes that implementing these limitations will help address this issue. It’s worth noting that Musk has previously expressed dissatisfaction with AI firms, including OpenAI, for utilizing Twitter data to train their language models.
Furthermore, Twitter recently experienced an outage that affected a substantial number of users. Around 11:17 AM ET on Saturday morning, approximately 7,500 individuals reported issues accessing the app. This outage prompted Twitter to take various measures to regain advertisers who had left the platform under Musk’s ownership. One such measure is the introduction of verification checkmarks as part of the Twitter Blue subscription service.
These developments highlight Twitter’s ongoing efforts to tackle data scraping concerns and enhance its services for users. The platform aims to improve the user experience, attract advertisers, and generate revenue through subscription-based models.