The Morning After: Twitter limits unverified users to seeing 600 posts a day
In a baffling move over the weekend, Elon Musk said the company would restrict unverified accounts to reading 600 posts per day – and new accounts to only 300 tweets daily. Meanwhile, Twitter will allow verified accounts to read 6,000 posts each day. For most people, that means, short of paying for Twitter Blue, they can spend about a minute or two on Twitter before encountering a"rate limit exceeded" error.
Musk claimed the"temporary" limits were in place to address"extreme levels of data scraping" and"system manipulation." The day before, Twitter began preventing people not logged into the site from viewing tweets. Musk did not say what"new" means in the context of an account, nor did he say how long Twitter plans to restrict users.
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