Musk says Twitter will limit how many tweets users can read

Twitter is limiting what number of tweets per day varied accounts can learn, to discourage “extreme levels” of information scraping and system manipulation, Executive Chair Elon Musk stated in a publish on the social media platform on Saturday.

Verified accounts are quickly restricted to studying 6,000 posts a day, Musk stated, including that the unverified accounts will likely be restricted to 600 posts a day with new unverified accounts restricted to 300.

The non permanent studying limitation will likely be rising quickly to eight,000 posts per day for verified customers, 800 posts per day for unverified and 400 posts per day for brand spanking new unverified customers, Musk stated in a separate publish on Twitter with out offering additional particulars on when it will be carried out.

Previously, Twitter had introduced it should require customers to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a transfer that Musk on Friday known as a “temporary emergency measure.”

Musk had stated that lots of of organizations or extra had been scraping Twitter knowledge “extremely aggressively,” impacting consumer expertise.

Musk had earlier expressed displeasure with synthetic intelligence corporations like OpenAI, the proprietor of ChatGPT, for utilizing Twitter’s knowledge to coach their massive language fashions.

The social media platform had beforehand taken a lot of steps to win again advertisers who left Twitter beneath Musk’s possession and to spice up subscription income by making verification examine marks part of the Twitter Blue program.

(Reporting by Anirudh Saligrama in Bengaluru; modifying by Diane Craft and David Gregorio)