Twitter is placing limits to what number of tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage that has stymied users’ means to trace new posts.
In a tweet, Musk detailed the revised utilization quotas. Verified account holders can peruse a most of 6,000 posts every day, whereas unverified users should take care of a drastically decreased restrict of 600 posts.
Newly registered, unverified users face even tighter restrictions with an allowance of a mere 300 posts per day, in accordance with the Tesla and SpaceX chief government.
Musk stated that Twitter is wrestling with “extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation.” These new constraints, he says, are an important measure to curb these urgent points. Musk didn’t say who was scraping Twitter’s knowledge — or how lengthy the difficulty had continued — nor did he elaborate on the system manipulation declare.
The billionaire has beforehand expressed considerations about knowledge scraping at Twitter and instructed that he might take motion in opposition to the dangerous actors. Musk was briefly outraged over Microsoft “illegally” using Twitter’s data and threatened that it was “lawsuit time.”
The curb follows tens of 1000’s of users complaining on Saturday that Twitter was not populating their feeds with newer tweets. Instead, users had been greeted with the “rate limit exceeded” error.
This is just not the first technical hiccup that Twitter has grappled with in current months, neither is it the first occasion of an unorthodox resolution being devised to carry the state of affairs collectively.
Earlier this week, Twitter began to restrict access to its platform for anybody not logged into an account.
The hiccup arrives at a time when social media large Meta is reportedly getting ready to launch its personal Twitter rival.
