On early Friday afternoon, web customers noticing that Twitter was now not permitting folks to view tweets in the event that they weren’t signed into the service. On the time, it was laborious to inform if the change was the results of a technical error or an intentional determination by the corporate’s management. Later within the day, nonetheless, Elon Musk addressed the problem.

“Momentary emergency measure,” he claimed in a tweet. “We have been getting knowledge pillaged a lot that it was degrading service for regular customers!” Musk subsequently shared extra context. “A number of hundred organizations (perhaps extra) have been scraping Twitter knowledge extraordinarily aggressively, to the purpose the place it was affecting the actual consumer expertise,” , replying to a tweet from Epic Video games CEO Tim Sweeney lamenting the “more and more damaged” state of the web. In a separate tweet, noticed by , Twitter engineer Aqueel Miqdad the corporate would re-enable logged-out entry “within the close to future.”

After all, with out extra info, it’s laborious to inform if Twitter customers are experiencing degraded service due to the information scrapers Musk claims are concentrating on the platform so aggressively. There’s not a workforce at Twitter that Musk’s cost-cutting hasn’t touched. In reality, the group accountable for sustaining the steadiness of Twitter’s servers has seen its justifiable share of . In June, the corporate had additionally its Google Cloud contract for a number of months.