JE News Desk: Elon Musk on Saturday said that he has applied temporary limits on who will read how many posts in a day, in order to prevent data scraping and system manipulation.
According to Musk's new order, verified accounts have been limited to reading 6,000 posts per day. Musk said that unverified accounts will be able to read 600 posts per day and new unverified accounts just 300 posts a day.
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
- Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
- Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
- New unverified accounts to 300/day
"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.
Twitteraties were quick enough to react to this latest update of the microblogging site.“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.
Meanwhile, Musk's clarification came as millions of users across the globe, including in India, slammed him as the micro-blogging platform suffered a major outage globally, which prevented thousands of users from accessing the social media platform.
According to the outage monitor website 'Down Detector', more than 7,000 users reported issues with Twitter. "Someone wake up Elon and tell him his USD 44 billion apps isn't working!" a Twitter user posted.
"Me coming to Twitter to see why it says 'rate limit exceeded' #TwitterDown," another user wrote. The hashtags #TwitterDown and #RateLimitExceeded were trending on Twitter.
Earlier on Saturday, Twitter stopped browsing access on its web platform for people without accounts, as Musk said this drastic action was necessary due to extreme levels of data scraping. "We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users," Musk posted.
"Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data," he claimed.