Twitter has begun aggressively limiting what number of tweets customers can view per day. On Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk mentioned the corporate would prohibit unverified accounts to studying 600 posts per day and new accounts to solely 300 tweets day by day. In the meantime, Twitter will permit verified accounts to learn 6,000 posts every day. For most individuals, meaning, wanting paying for Twitter Blue, they’ll spend a couple of minute or two on Twitter earlier than encountering a “fee restrict exceeded” error. Lower than two hours later, Musk mentioned Twitter would “quickly” ease the boundaries to eight,000 for verified accounts and 800 for these with out Twitter Blue. 

Musk claimed the “momentary” limits have been put in place to handle “excessive ranges of knowledge scraping” and “system manipulation.” The day earlier than, Twitter started stopping individuals not logged into the positioning from viewing tweets. Just like the utilization restrict, Musk has claimed the login restriction will solely be momentary and was put in place in response to information scrapers. “A number of hundred organizations (perhaps extra) have been scraping Twitter information extraordinarily aggressively, to the purpose the place it was affecting the true consumer expertise,” Musk mentioned Friday. He later claimed “nearly each firm doing AI” was scraping Twitter to coach their fashions. “It’s somewhat galling to need to convey giant numbers of servers on-line on an emergency foundation simply to facilitate some AI startup’s outrageous valuation,” he mentioned.  

Musk didn’t say what “new” means within the context of an account, nor did he say how lengthy Twitter plans to limit customers in the way in which it is doing so presently. He additionally did not state if viewing adverts counts in opposition to a consumer’s view restrict. Both means, the restrictions severely restrict the useability of Twitter, making it troublesome, as an example, to confirm if a screenshot of a tweet is genuine. A cynical view of the scenario would recommend Twitter is looking for methods to squeeze each bit of cash it could possibly from its consumer base. In March, the corporate launched API modifications that might value some organizations as a lot as $42,000 a month. Nevertheless, that transfer and the introduction of Twitter Blue do not seem to have offset the promoting income Twitter has misplaced since Musk’s takeover. Limiting what number of tweets, and by extension adverts, customers can see is unlikely to make the corporate’s remaining shoppers pleased.