Entrepreneur Elon Musk, owner of Twitter, said this Saturday that the social network has imposed temporary limits on the reading of tweets (posts) to prevent “extreme levels of data mining and system manipulation.”
As stated in his account, verified accounts will be able to read a maximum of “6,000 posts (tweets) per day“, while the unverified ones will only be able to read 600, and the “new unverified accounts” even less, 300.
The ad doesn’t specify whether that daily tweet count applies to selecting specific posts or encompasses all posts that appear.for example, by scrolling down the home screen timeline, browsing threads, or reviewing tweet responses.
This same Saturday, a couple of hours before Musk revealed those limits, thousands of users reported problems accessing the social network on the Downdetector monitoring page, and they seemed to continue, although to a lesser extent, after the announcement.
On the social network itself, some affected people indicated today that the application gave them the following error messages: “The limit has been exceeded” and “Tweets cannot be displayed.”
This Friday, specialized media indicated that Twitter had closed its content, including tweets, threads and profiles, to visitors who do not have an account, to whom a message appears asking them to register or enter their credentials.
In this regard, Musk said he responded to a tweet questioning whether it was a technical problem, explaining that it was a “temporary emergency measure” and alluded, as today, to “data looting,” the Verge portal collects.
He also brought up the issue in a response to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney, who was complaining about “paywalls” on places online, including Twitter.
“Several hundred organizations (perhaps more) were extremely aggressively mining data from Twitterto the point where it was affecting the actual user experience,” he told Sweeney, with whom he engaged in a discussion of “ideas” on how to fix the issue.
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