Elon Musk announced Saturday that Twitter will temporarily limit the number of tweets users can read per day — depending on whether they are paid subscribers — to combat computer programs that comb through posts to extract useful data from the platform.
It’s unclear how long the limits will last, and what lifting them will depend on. Musk did not respond to a request for comment.
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Under the new limits, verified accounts will be limited to reading 6,000 posts per day while unverified accounts will have access to 600 tweets per day. New unverified users, who join the platform after Saturday’s announcement, can only access 300 posts per day.
In a Tweet, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO said “extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation” contributed to the decision.
