Twitter puts strict cap on how many tweets users can read each day | Engadget

Unverified accounts can read, at most, 600 posts daily.

Twitter has begun aggressively limiting how many tweets users can view per day. On Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk said the company would restrict unverified accounts to reading 600 posts per day, and new accounts to only 300 tweets daily. Meanwhile, Twitter will allow verified accounts to read 6,000 posts each day. For most people, that means short of paying for Twitter Blue, they will be able to spend about a minute or two on Twitter before encountering a “rate limit exceeded” error.      

Musk claimed the “temporary” limits were put in place to address “extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation.” The day before, Twitter began preventing people who aren’t logged into the site from viewing tweets. Like the usage limit, Musk has claimed the login restriction will only be temporary, and that it was done in response to data scrapers. “Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience,” Musk said Friday. 

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