Musk imposes daily limits on Twitter for reading tweets

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Businessman Elon Musk, owner of Twitter, He said this Saturday in his account that The social network has imposed temporary limits on the reading of tweets (posts) to avoid “extreme levels of data extraction and manipulation of the system”. Initially, this restriction had been confused with a global crash of the social network, but it is not due to any failure.

Musk has indicated that the verified accounts they will be able to read a maximum of “6,000 posts (tweets) a day”, while the unverified will only be able to read 600, and the “new unverified accounts”, even less, 300.

Subsequently, the American entrepreneur, has relaxed this limitation progressively up to 10,000 tweets for verified accounts, 1,000 for unverified ones and 500 for new users.

The announcement does not specify whether that daily tweet count applies to the select specific posts o Covers all publications that appear, for example, at move down the chronology from the main screen, consult threads or check responses to tweets.

This same Saturday, a couple of hours before Musk revealed those limits, thousands of users reported problems accessing the social network on the tracking page down detector, and they seemed to continue, albeit to a lesser extent, after the announcement.

On the social network itself, some affected indicated today that the application gave them the following error messages: “Limit exceeded” and “Cannot display tweets.”

This Friday, specialized media indicated that Twitter had closed its contents, including tweets, threads and profiles, to visitors who do not have an account, who are prompted to register or enter their credentials.

In this regard, Musk has responded to a tweet questioning whether he was a technical problem explaining that it was a “temporary emergency measure” and has alluded, as today, to “data looting” Pick up The Verge portal.

You have also mentioned the matter in a reply to the CEO of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, who complained about the “paywalls” on places on the internet, including Twitter.

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“Several hundred organizations (perhaps more) were extracting data from Twitter extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience”, he has told Sweeney, with whom he has engaged in a discussion of “ideas” on how to solve the matter.

Meanwhile, on Twitter, the user complaints, who reject this measure. Among them, politicians like Pablo Echenique.



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