Musk announced reading limits for all Twitter accounts over the weekend, blaming AI but punishing humans who still use Twitter.
Elon Musk’s Twitter is in crisis again. It began on Friday when, without warning or explanation, the companyto the site for anyone who wasn’t logged into an account. At first it wasn’t clear if the move was intentional or yet another technical failure for the bug-plagued platform.
“scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.” He later claimed that AI companies scrounging for free content for their large-language models and chatbots were to blame. Then on Saturday, as logged-in real users began reporting that tweets had stopped loading for them too,users “to address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation.” User accounts that didn’t pay for the company’s infamous Twitter Blue “verification” would be limited to viewing a total of 600 posts per day, while accounts that did pay up would be limited to 6,000. Newly created Twitter accounts would be limited to viewing 300 posts per day.
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