Elon Musk Imposes Daily Post Limit for Twitter Users
Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Musk said, adding that the unverified accounts will be limited to 600 posts a day with new unverified accounts limited to 300.
Elon Musk announced new limits on the number of posts Twitter users will be able to read each day in a bid to fight “extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation.”
Verified accounts are temporarily limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Musk said, adding that the unverified accounts will be limited to 600 posts a day with new unverified accounts limited to 300.
“To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits: Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day, Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day, New unverified accounts to 300/day,” Musk said on Twitter.
The temporary reading limitation will be increasing soon to 8,000 posts per day for verified users, 800 posts per day for unverified and 400 posts per day for new unverified users, Musk said in a separate post on Twitter without providing further details on when it would be implemented.
Musk’s tweet came in the wake of complaints about Twitter outages by scores of users.
Many Twitter users were not happy with Musk’s announcement about limiting the number of tweets any given user can read in a day.
“I scroll through about 100 posts on my timeline per minute. If he keeps this it will literally end Twitter,” one user complained.
“It’s a social media app, selling ads based on impressions and time spent on the app, that is going to make people use the app less. Unreal,” another user pointed out.
“This is nuts,” yet another user tweeted.
“Your addiction is about to be broken. We will all be free. See you guys at the park,” one user joked.
Musk himself replied to that user, with “Touch grass again.”
On Friday, Twitter blocked people from viewing tweets and profiles on its website unless they are signed in to the social media site. Users who try to view content on the platform will be asked to sign up for an account or log into an existing account to see their favorite tweets.
Source: Indiatoday.in