Twitter users, take note. The social media platform is now temporarily limiting the number of tweets you can read in a day.
This is apparently in response to a high number of data scraping and system manipulation cases.
Twitter owner and chairman Elon Musk announced this in a series of tweets via his account on Sunday (2 July).
As of this writing., verified users can read up to 10,000 tweets in a day.
However, non-verified users are far more limited in how many they can view.
The measures also come after an app outage, during which many had problems accessing the app.
In a first tweet, Musk said that these limits are temporary measures to “address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”.
Initially, Musk set the daily post limits at 6000 for Twitter Blue verified accounts, 600 for unverified accounts, and 300 for new unverified accounts.
Then, in a second tweet about two hours after, he increased the limits to 8,000 for verified accounts, 800 for unverified accounts, and 400 for new unverified accounts.
The limits then went up again after three hours.
Per Musk’s third and latest tweet at the time of writing, the current limits are:
The Twitter owner did not specify how long these temporary limits will last.
On Saturday (1 July), many Twitter users experienced problems with the social media platform. In Singapore, users had issues accessing the app starting from about 8pm, according to Downdetector.sg.
At the peak of the outage, the monitoring platform received 146 reports at around 10.57pm.
A whopping 40% of users experienced difficulties with the Twitter app, and almost a quarter of them saw problems with their social feeds.
Source: Downdetector.sg
The outage in Singapore lasted until about 4am on Sunday (2 July). While reports have mostly died down by then, there were still some users filing reports at noon.
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Featured image adapted from Unsplash and Elon Musk on Twitter.
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