Twitter limits the number of tweets users can read amid extended outage

Twitter is placing limits to what number of tweets its users can read as the Elon Musk-owned service suffers extended outage that has stymied users’ skill to trace new posts.

In a tweet, Musk detailed the revised utilization quotas. Verified account holders can peruse a most of 6,000 posts each day, whereas unverified users should deal with a drastically decreased restrict of 600 posts.

Newly registered, unverified users face even tighter restrictions with an allowance of a mere 300 posts per day, in accordance with the Tesla and SpaceX chief government. (He has since elevated the restrict to 10,000, 1,000 and 500.)

Musk stated that Twitter is wrestling with “extreme levels of data scraping” from “several hundred organizations” and “system manipulation.” These new constraints, he says, are a vital measure to curb these urgent points. Musk didn’t say who was scraping Twitter’s knowledge — or how lengthy the challenge had persevered — nor did he elaborate on the system manipulation declare.

The billionaire has beforehand expressed considerations about knowledge scraping at Twitter and advised that he could take motion in opposition to the unhealthy actors. Musk was briefly outraged over Microsoft “illegally” utilizing Twitter’s knowledge and threatened that it was “lawsuit time.”

According to a developer, nevertheless, the large unhealthy wolf that Twitter is preventing in opposition to this week seems to be Twitter itself. A bug in Twitter’s internet app is sending requests to Twitter in an infinite loop.

The curb follows tens of hundreds of users complaining on Saturday that Twitter was not populating their feeds with newer tweets. Instead, users have been greeted with the “rate limit exceeded” error.

This isn’t the first technical hiccup that Twitter has grappled with in current months, neither is it the first occasion of an unorthodox answer being devised to carry the state of affairs collectively.

Earlier this week, Twitter began to limit entry to its platform for anybody not logged into an account.

The hiccup arrives at a time when social media big Meta is reportedly getting ready to launch its personal Twitter rival.