Twitter is limiting the number of tweets its users can see as the Elon Musk-owned service experiences a lengthy outage that has hampered users’ ability to track new messages. Musk detailed the revised usage limitations in a tweet. Verified account holders can read up to 6,000 posts each day, whereas unverified users have a much lower restriction of 600 posts.
According to Elon Musk, newly registered, unverified Twitter users face even stricter restrictions, with a daily limit of 300 postings. He has now raised the thresholds to 10,000, 1,000, and 500.
According to Musk, the company is dealing with “extreme levels of data scraping” from “several hundred organisations” as well as “system manipulation.” These additional restrictions, he claims, are a necessary approach to address these critical challenges. Musk did not identify who was scraping Twitter’s data or how long the problem had been going on, nor did he elaborate on the claim of system manipulation.
The billionaire has already raised worries over data scraping on Twitter and hinted that he may take action against the perpetrators. Musk was upset for a brief while that Microsoft was “illegally” exploiting the social media giant’s data and stated that it was “lawsuit time.”
However, according to a developer, the big evil wolf that the company is fighting this week appears to be Twitter itself. A flaw in the social media servicec’s web interface is causing requests to the company to repeat indefinitely.
Tens of thousands of users complained on Saturday that their feeds were not being updated with newer tweets. Users were instead confronted with the “rate limit exceeded” error. This is not the company’s first technical setback in recent months, nor is it the first time an unconventional solution has been devised to keep the situation together.
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