Musk says Twitter will limit how many tweets users can read By Reuters

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk, Chief Govt Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and proprietor of Twitter, gestures as he attends the Viva Know-how convention devoted to innovation and startups on the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 202

(Reuters) -Twitter is limiting what number of tweets per day varied accounts can learn, to discourage “excessive ranges” of information scraping and system manipulation, Govt Chair Elon Musk mentioned in a publish on the social media platform on Saturday.

Verified accounts are quickly restricted to studying 6,000 posts a day, Musk mentioned, including that the unverified accounts can be restricted to 600 posts a day with new unverified accounts restricted to 300.

The momentary studying limitation can be rising quickly to eight,000 posts per day for verified customers, 800 posts per day for unverified and 400 posts per day for brand new unverified customers, Musk mentioned in a separate publish on Twitter with out offering additional particulars on when it might be applied.

Beforehand, Twitter had introduced it’s going to require customers to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a transfer that Musk on Friday referred to as a “momentary emergency measure.”

Musk had mentioned that lots of of organizations or extra had been scraping Twitter knowledge “extraordinarily aggressively”, impacting person expertise.

Musk had earlier expressed displeasure with synthetic intelligence companies like OpenAI, the proprietor of ChatGPT, for utilizing Twitter’s knowledge to coach their massive language fashions.

The social media platform had beforehand taken a lot of steps to win again advertisers who left Twitter below Musk’s possession and to spice up subscription income by making verification verify marks part of the Twitter Blue program.