Twitter owner, Elon Musk on Saturday 1st July, announced ‘temporary’ limits on the social media platform to address “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”.
Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Musk said, stating that the unverified accounts and new unverified accounts are limited to reading 600 posts a day and 300 posts per day, respectively.
But Musk did not disclose when the temporary restrictions would commence nor for how long they would last.
Users who try to view content on the platform will be asked to sign up for an account or log into an exiting account to see their favorite tweets.
“We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!” Musk said in a tweet.
He added that hundreds of organisations or more were scraping Twitter data “extremely aggressively”, affecting user experience.
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