Elon Musk Sets New Limits On Twitter Users: Details Here

International

oi-Madhuri Adnal

Twitter owner Elon Musk announced on Saturday that the social media platform will temporarily limit the number of tweets that users can read per day.

Verified accounts will be limited to 6,000 tweets per day, while unverified accounts and new unverified accounts will be limited to 600 tweets per day and 300 tweets per day, respectively.

Musk said that the move was necessary to address “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation.” He added that hundreds of organizations were scraping Twitter data “extremely aggressively,” which was degrading service for normal users.

On Friday, Twitter also announced that it will now require users to have an account on the platform to view tweets. This move, which Musk called a “temporary emergency measure,” is also aimed at preventing data scraping.

Musk has previously expressed displeasure at artificial intelligence firms using Twitter’s data to train their large language models. He has said that he believes that Twitter’s data should be used for the benefit of its users, not for the benefit of third-party companies.

The temporary limits on data scraping and account creation have been met with mixed reactions from Twitter users. Some users have welcomed the move, saying that it will help to protect their privacy and make the platform more user-friendly. Others have criticized the move, saying that it is an infringement on their freedom of speech.