A temporary restriction has been placed on the number of tweets users can read each day on Twitter, according to Tesla Inc.’s billionaire founder Elon Musk.
Musk, the chief technology officer (CTO) and chairman of the firm, in a tweet over the weekend, explained that the move aims to tackle issues around “data and systems manipulation.”
He said verified users will have access to 6,000 posts daily, while unverified and new users will be allowed to read 600 and 300 posts, respectively.
Although Musk did not specify when the temporary restrictions would begin or for how long they would last. The tweet reads “To address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits,” Musk tweeted.
“Verified accounts are limited to reading 6,000 posts per day. Unverified accounts for 600 posts per day. New unverified accounts to 300 per day.”
In a related tweet, the billionaire added that limits to users’ readership would be increased subsequently by about 33 percent.
“Rate limits increasing soon to 8,000 for verified, 800 for unverified, and 400 for new unverified,” Musk added.
Since Musk acquired control of the microblogging service, Twitter has added a few features and modifications.
The business developed a subscription plan for the verified blue tick mark in 2022. Musk unveiled a feature in April 2023 that enables media publishers to charge readers on a per-article basis.
This followed the announcement that Twitter users will be able to monetize their content, including long-form text and hours-long videos. After the first year, the platform would take a 10% cut of content subscription fees, the Twitter chairman indicated in a later update in May.
