Elon Musk Imposes A 600 Tweet Reading Limit For Twitter Users

SAN FRANCISCO – On Saturday, thousands of individuals reported issues accessing Twitter after owner Elon Musk limited most users to viewing 600 tweets per day — restrictions he characterized as an attempt to prevent unauthorized scraping of potentially valuable data from the platform.

Based on complaints logged on Downdetector, a website that records online outages, the crackdown began to have ripple effects early Saturday, forcing more than 7,500 people to report issues accessing the social media account at one point. Although this is a modest proportion of Twitter’s more than 200 million global users, the issue was pervasive enough that the hashtag #TwitterDown trended in several parts of the world.

The outages occurred a day after Twitter began requiring users to log in to view tweets and profiles, a departure from the company’s long-standing policy of allowing anyone to peruse the chatter on what Musk has frequently referred to as the world’s digital town square since purchasing it for $44 billion last year.

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Thousands of individuals reported issues accessing Twitter after owner Elon Musk limited most users to viewing 600 tweets per day.

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Musk described the new restrictions in a Friday tweet as a “temporary measure” adopted because “we were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!” Musk expanded on the measures in a Saturday tweet, announcing that unverified users will be limited to seeing 600 messages daily, while verified accounts can swipe through up to 6,000 posts daily.

After browsing through hundreds of messages, users may be locked out of Twitter for the day due to the restrictions.

The higher threshold for verified accounts is part of Musk’s $8 per month subscription service, which he launched earlier this year to boost Twitter revenue, which has fallen sharply since he took over the company and laid off roughly three-fourths of the workforce to cut costs and avoid bankruptcy.

Advertisers’ investment in Twitter has now been reduced, partly due to developments that have allowed for more occasionally cruel and spiky content that offends a larger portion of the service’s readership. Musk appointed Linda Yaccarino, a long-time NBC Universal executive, as Twitter’s CEO to reclaim advertising.

An Associated Journalist inquiry regarding Saturday’s access issues elicited a vulgar automatic response, which Twitter sends to most journalist inquiries without answering.

SOURCE – (AP)