Twitter offered this Tuesday, July 4, explanations regarding the recent limits of use announced by its owner, Elon Muskand said that they seek to combat “bots” and others “bad actors“who are dedicated to the extraction of data to “build artificial intelligence (AI) models.”
Musk announced last Saturday a reading wall that limit The number of daily tweets that can see verified (10,000) and unverified (1,000) accounts, with a greater restriction for those that do not pay and have been recently created (500), following which thousands of users reported access problems.
It’s a statement, Twitter indicated that it takes “extreme measures to eliminate spam y bots of the platform” and that is what this is regarding new wallwhich will be “temporary” and which he did not inform in advance because “it would have allowed the bad actors alter their behavior to evade detection.
“At a high level, we are working to prevent these accounts from 1) extracting public data from the Twitter of people to build models of IA and 2) manipulate people and conversations on the platform in various ways,” the technology company added.
On Saturday, the tracking page Downdetector collected 7,000 reports of problems accessing the red socialwhich have since normalized, and this Tuesday there were no reports.
Many users posted the message error which appeared to them on the platform, and which indicated that they had reached their limit reading journal.
Twitter pointed out today that the restrictions They currently affect “a small percentage of people” and that they will send an update when “the work is completed.”
Furthermore, he said, the “effects on advertising have been minimums for advertisers.”
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