2023-07-01 18:43:57
In a tweet, Elon Musk detailed the new usage quotas. Verified account holders can view a maximum of 6,000 messages per day, while unverified users must make do with a greatly reduced limit of 600 messages.
New registered and unverified users face even tighter restrictions, with only 300 messages allowed per day, according to the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX.
Musk said that Twitter faces ‘extreme levels of data collection’ and “system manipulation”. According to him, these new constraints are essential measures to curb these pressing problems. Musk didn’t say who was collecting the Twitter data — or how long the problem had persisted — nor did he expand on the system manipulation claim.
The billionaire has previously expressed concern regarding data collection on Twitter and suggested he might take action once morest malicious actors. Musk was briefly outraged that Microsoft was “illegally” using Twitter data and threatened to take legal action. The restriction follows tens of thousands of users who complained on Saturday that Twitter was not showing new tweets in their feed. Instead, users were greeted with the “rate limit exceeded” error.
This isn’t the first technical hiccup Twitter has faced in recent months, nor the first time an unorthodox solution has been put in place to resolve the situation. Earlier this week, Twitter began restricting access to its platform for anyone not logged into an account. These issues come at a time when social media giant Meta is apparently preparing to launch its own Twitter competitor.
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