Under these new limitations, verified accounts will be restricted to reading 6,000 posts per day, while unverified accounts will have access to only 600 posts per day. Musk shared this information in a tweet. Additionally, new unverified users who join Twitter after the announcement will only be able to access 300 posts per day.
On Friday, Elon Musk expressed concern about the “extreme levels of data scraping” conducted by artificial intelligence companies in a tweet. He cited data scraping as one of the reasons behind the implementation of these limits. Chatbots like ChatGPT heavily rely on scraped data from the internet.
Approximately an hour after announcing the limits, Musk tweeted that the limits would soon increase to 8,000 posts per day for verified accounts, 800 posts per day for unverified accounts, and 400 posts per day for new unverified accounts.
Musk did not specify how these changes would impact Twitter features like Spaces, their audio conversation platform. However, many users have reported seeing “rate limit exceeded” messages on their Twitter homepages, restricting their ability to view tweet replies or posts in their feed, following Musk’s announcement.
Downdetector, a website that tracks online service outages, showed a significant increase in user reports of Twitter malfunctions starting at 8 a.m. Eastern on Saturday. These reports have continued throughout the day.
These restrictions are the latest major change implemented by Elon Musk since he acquired Twitter for $44 billion in October. During his tenure, Musk has reinstated numerous previously banned accounts, including that of former president Donald Trump. He has also removed verification marks from public figures and introduced a paid subscription option for the blue check mark at $8 per month.
The exodus of advertisers from Twitter has raised questions about the company’s revenue prospects. In response to the perceived chaos, Musk appointed Linda Yaccarino, formerly NBCUniversal’s chairman of global advertising and partnerships, as Twitter’s CEO in May.
Twitter’s evolving user experience and frequent glitches have prompted some users to switch to alternative social media platforms like Mastodon and Bluesky. Meta has also reportedly proposed the development of its own Twitter clone.
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