Key takeaways:
- Elon Musk announced Saturday that he is temporarily limiting the daily number of tweets users can read.
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, while unverified accounts can only access 300 posts a day.
- The move has been met with mixed reactions from users, with some expressing their frustration at the new limits and others praising Musk for taking action to protect the platform.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced Saturday that he is temporarily limiting the daily number of tweets users can read, after thousands of users reported problems attempting to access the social media site.
Musk said in a tweet that the new change is to “address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation.” Verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, while unverified accounts can only access 300 posts a day.
The announcement came after thousands of Twitter users reported that they were unable to use the social media app on Saturday, prompting hashtags that included “TwitterDown” and “RateLimitExceeded.” Some users flagged issues that included being unable to retrieve tweets, or the error message, “Sorry, you are rate limited.”
This is the latest widespread outage since Musk acquired the social media site late last year. It is unclear when the new limits will be lifted, but Musk said that the change is temporary.
The move has been met with mixed reactions from users, with some expressing their frustration at the new limits and others praising Musk for taking action to protect the platform from data scraping and manipulation.
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