Quote:Elon Musk Places 'Temporary Limits' on Unverified Twitter Accounts

Musk—whose purchase of the social media company last year has come under significant scrutiny amid an increase in outages, widespread layoffs and concerns about content moderation—tweeted Saturday afternoon that he is taking new action to combat "extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation." The platform will temporarily restrict the amount of tweets users can view per day.

Unverified accounts will be limited to viewing 800 posts each day, while new accounts that have not been verified will be limited to only 400 posts per day, Musk wrote.

Even those who have purchased the premium Twitter Blue will be limited in how many tweets they can view. These users alongside those who are verified will be able to see 8,000 posts per day, according to Musk.

Musk has not responded to the backlash, instead tweeting, "Rate limited due to reading all the posts about rate limits."



Musk initially announced the limitations as being lower before amending those numbers. He first said that unverified accounts would be limited to 600, new unverified accounts to 300 and verified users to 6,000 tweets per day.

Newsweek reached out to Musk via SpaceX and Tesla's press emails. After purchasing the social media platform, Musk disbanded the company's public relations team, so no press contact for Twitter could be reached.

The limitations are the latest controversy since Musk's Twitter takeover. Musk announced earlier this year that he would dismantle Twitter's "legacy" verification program, which allowed prominent individuals to be verified to differentiate themselves from parodies or impersonators. Instead, verification now comes from a Twitter Blue account. Meanwhile, Twitter has also seen an uptick in hate speech amid his pledge to prioritize free speech on the platform.

Internal revenue documents reported by The New York Times last month found that advertising revenue dropped 59 percent in the five weeks between April 1 and the first week of May amid these controversies.

Quote:In a tweet, Musk detailed the revised usage quotas. Verified account holders can peruse a maximum of 6,000 posts daily, while unverified users must contend with a drastically reduced limit of 600 posts.

Newly registered, unverified users face even tighter restrictions with an allowance of a mere 300 posts per day, according to the Tesla and SpaceX chief executive.

Musk said that Twitter is wrestling with “extreme levels of data scraping” and “system manipulation.” These new constraints, he says, are an essential measure to curb these pressing issues. Musk did not say who was scraping Twitter’s data — or how long the issue had persisted — nor did he elaborate on the system manipulation claim.

The billionaire has previously expressed concerns about data scraping at Twitter and suggested that he may take action against the bad actors. Musk was briefly outraged over Microsoft “illegally” using Twitter’s data and threatened that it was “lawsuit time.”

Quote:Musk—whose purchase of the social media company last year has come under significant scrutiny amid an increase in outages, widespread layoffs and concerns about content moderation—tweeted Saturday afternoon that he is taking new action to combat "extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation." The platform will temporarily restrict the amount of tweets users can view per day.

Unverified accounts will be limited to viewing 800 posts each day, while new accounts that have not been verified will be limited to only 400 posts per day, Musk wrote.

Even those who have purchased the premium Twitter Blue will be limited in how many tweets they can view. These users alongside those who are verified will be able to see 8,000 posts per day, according to Musk.

Musk has not responded to the backlash, instead tweeting, "Rate limited due to reading all the posts about rate limits."


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Musk initially announced the limitations as being lower before amending those numbers. He first said that unverified accounts would be limited to 600, new unverified accounts to 300 and verified users to 6,000 tweets per day.

Newsweek reached out to Musk via SpaceX and Tesla's press emails. After purchasing the social media platform, Musk disbanded the company's public relations team, so no press contact for Twitter could be reached.

The limitations are the latest controversy since Musk's Twitter takeover. Musk announced earlier this year that he would dismantle Twitter's "legacy" verification program, which allowed prominent individuals to be verified to differentiate themselves from parodies or impersonators. Instead, verification now comes from a Twitter Blue account. Meanwhile, Twitter has also seen an uptick in hate speech amid his pledge to prioritize free speech on the platform.

Internal revenue documents reported by The New York Times last month found that advertising revenue dropped 59 percent in the five weeks between April 1 and the first week of May amid these controversies.

(07-02-2023, 04:16 PM)xuenchen Wrote: Another new way to get around the dilemma of becoming an extension of a Government Agency and violating The 1st Amendment like before 

(07-02-2023, 03:58 AM)Ninurta Wrote: Shit fire!

Folks have the time to read EIGHT HUNDRED posts a day, and still find time to bitch about being "limited'? No damned wonder they are living off Cheetos in their mother's basements - they ain't got time to work a damned job!

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