#RIPTwitter trends as Musk announces limits on reading tweets
Musk in a tweet revealed that verified accounts will be limited to reading 10,000 posts daily, while unverified accounts will be limited to 1000 tweets daily.
Published Date - 2 July 2023, 02:57 PM
Hyderabad: Twitter owner Elon Musk on Saturday announced that Twitter would temporarily limit the number of tweets users can read per day to combat computer programs that use posts to extract useful data from the platform.
Musk in a tweet revealed that paid and unpaid users will have separate limits— while verified accounts will be limited to reading 10,000 posts daily, unverified accounts will be limited to 1,000 tweets daily. Newly created unverified accounts will be limited to 500 tweets a day.
The Twitter CTO initially announced stricter limits, but he changed them within hours. However, he did not mention when the restriction ends.
He said that viewing limits would be temporarily imposed on tweets to address “extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation.”
A report by ‘Platform’ stated that Twitter had allegedly refused to pay its Google Cloud bills, leading to questions on how its trust and safety teams could be compromised. Thousands of users on Saturday reported that they were unable to access the social media site and reported they were met with error messages that read “Cannot retrieve tweets.”
As soon as the latest update was announced, #RIPTwitter trended on the micro-blogging site with users critical of the decision. Many funny memes also took over the internet.
Meanwhile, Twitter co-founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey has reacted to the new update. The entrepreneur said that “running Twitter is hard (but) the team is doing their best under the constraints, which are immense.” Addressing the uproar and criticism that has come Elon Musk’s way, Jack said that it is easy to critique a decision from afar but the end goal is to see Twitter thrive.