#TwitterDown: Elon Musk announces temporary read limits on Twitter
– Elon Musk, the new owner of Twitter, has announced that the platform will be temporarily limiting the number of tweets that users can read per day.
– This is in response to reports of excessive data scraping and system manipulation.
– Verified accounts will be limited to 6,000 tweets per day, while unverified accounts will be limited to 600. New unverified accounts will be limited to 300 tweets per day.
– Musk says that the limits will be lifted once the platform has taken steps to address the data scraping and manipulation.
– The temporary read limits were announced on July 1, 2023, shortly after Twitter experienced a widespread outage.
– The limits are being implemented to prevent bots and other automated accounts from scraping data from Twitter.
– The limits are also being implemented to prevent users from manipulating the platform's algorithms.
– Musk has said that he believes the temporary read limits are necessary to protect Twitter's integrity.
– He has also said that he plans to lift the limits once the platform has taken steps to address the data scraping and manipulation.