Twitter is imposing limits on the number of tweets its users can read as Elon Musk's company has been experiencing a long-term outage that has prevented users from following new posts. In a tweet, Musk explained the revised usage limits. Verified account users can view a maximum of 6,000 posts per day, while unverified users face a limit of 600 posts. Newly registered and unverified users face severe restrictions with a limit of only 300 posts per day, according to the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. (It has increased the limit to 10,000, 1,000, and 500.). The billionaire has expressed concern about the data breach on Twitter and said he may take action against wrongdoers. Musk was temporarily angry that Microsoft was using Twitter data "illegally" and threatened that it was "judgment time". According to one developer, however, the biggest bad wolf Twitter is up against this week seems to be Twitter itself. A bug in the Twitter web application sends requests to Twitter in an infinite loop. The move follows tens of thousands of users complaining on Saturday that Twitter was not populating their feeds with new tweets. Instead, users were greeted with a "rate exceeded" error. This is not the first technical issue Twitter has faced in recent months, nor is it the first example of a poor solution designed to keep the situation together. Last week, Twitter began blocking access to its platform for anyone without an account. The move comes at a time when social media giant Meta is reportedly preparing to launch its own Twitter.
Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
Musk said that Twitter is wrestling with “extreme levels of data scraping” from “several hundred organizations” and “system manipulation.” These new constraints, he says, are an essential measure to curb these pressing issues. Musk did not say who was scraping Twitter’s data — or how long the issue had persisted — nor did he elaborate on the system manipulation claim.
