Twitter CEO Elon Musk said Saturday that the social media platform will limit how many tweets users can read due to “extreme” levels of system manipulation and data scraping.
Musk said in a statement that Twitter has applied the following temporary limits on users, with new unverified accounts limited to reading just 300 posts per day.
The limits rise to 600 posts per day for existing unverified accounts, meaning ones without a blue checkmark, while verified accounts enjoy ten times the volume, or 6,000 posts per day.
Some users expressed disappointment about the throttling.
“Putting hard limits on reads is web 1.0 stuff,” wrote the Disclose.tv verified account, which has around 1.2 million followers….