Twitter is limiting what number of tweets per day varied accounts can learn, to discourage “extreme levels” of knowledge scraping and system manipulation, Executive Chair Elon Musk stated in a submit on the social media platform on Saturday.
Verified accounts have been initially restricted to studying 6,000 posts a day, Musk stated, including that unverified accounts will likely be restricted to 600 posts a day with new unverified accounts restricted to 300.
The non permanent studying limitation was later elevated to 10,000 posts per day for verified customers, 1,000 posts per day for unverified and 500 posts per day for brand new unverified customers, Musk stated in a separate submit with out offering additional particulars.
Previously, Twitter had introduced it can require customers to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a transfer that Musk on Friday referred to as a “temporary emergency measure.”
Musk had stated that tons of of organizations or extra have been scraping Twitter information “extremely aggressively”, impacting consumer expertise.
Musk had earlier expressed displeasure with synthetic intelligence corporations like OpenAI, the proprietor of ChatGPT, for utilizing Twitter’s information to coach their giant language fashions.
Twitter was down for 1000’s of customers on Saturday morning, based on outage monitoring web site Downdetector.com.
Nearly 7,500 customers throughout the social media platform reported points with accessing the app throughout the peak of the outage at round 11:17 AM ET.
The social media platform had beforehand taken quite a lot of steps to win again advertisers who left Twitter underneath Musk’s possession and to spice up subscription income by making verification test marks part of the Twitter Blue program. — Reuters
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
