Twitter introduces read limits of 500 Posts Per Day

Twitter has announced a limit to the number of tweets users can visit each day, announced owner Elon Musk.

Twitter has announced a limit to the number of tweets users can visit each day, announced owner Elon Musk.

The move is a temporary measure to address “extreme levels” of data scraping, said the outspoken social media boss.

Verified accounts can now read 10,000 posts a day, while unverified accounts are limited to 1,000 and new unverified accounts to 500

Twitter read limits
Apparently done as a temporary measure after a major outage on Saturday, Twitter owner Elon Musk took a lot of flak after limiting the number of tweets a user could see.

Musk tweeted that it was done “to address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”.

Verified accounts were limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, while unverified accounts were limited to just 600.

New unverified accounts could read 300 posts a day.

The announcement raised ire among users, who posted thousands of messages. Hashtags like “#TwitterDown”, “#RateLimitExceeded” and “#ThanksElon” were trending.

Later, Musk posted he will increase the limit “soon” to 8,000 tweets a day for verified users, 800 for unverified and 400 for new unverified accounts.

Three hours later, he tweeted again: “Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k”.

Musk began offering a blue verification check mark for users who sign up for its Twitter Blue subscription service.

The service is available for $8 a month in the US.

Many critics have maintained that most of Twitter’s technical problems are because Musk downsized the staff to more than half after his much talked about $44bn takeover of the social media platform.

Musk has also been critical of data scraping, the act of artificial intelligence-powered chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard harvesting data from the internet in order to power their models.