Twitter places strict cap on what number of tweets customers can learn every day

Twitter has begun aggressively limiting what number of tweets customers can view per day. On Saturday afternoon, Elon Musk mentioned the corporate would limit unverified accounts to studying 600 posts per day and new accounts to solely 300 tweets every day. In the meantime, Twitter will enable verified accounts to learn 6,000 posts every day. For most individuals, which means, in need of paying for Twitter Blue, they’ll spend a couple of minute or two on Twitter earlier than encountering a “charge restrict exceeded” error. Lower than two hours later, Musk mentioned Twitter would “quickly” ease the boundaries to eight,000 for verified accounts and 800 for these with out Twitter Blue. 

Musk claimed the “non permanent” limits had been put in place to deal with “excessive ranges of knowledge scraping” and “system manipulation.” The day earlier than, Twitter started stopping folks not logged into the positioning from viewing tweets. Just like the utilization restrict, Musk has claimed the login restriction will solely be non permanent and was put in place in response to knowledge scrapers. “A number of hundred organizations (perhaps extra) had been scraping Twitter knowledge extraordinarily aggressively, to the purpose the place it was affecting the true person expertise,” Musk mentioned Friday. He later claimed “virtually each firm doing AI” was scraping Twitter to coach their fashions. “It’s slightly galling to must deliver massive numbers of servers on-line on an emergency foundation simply to facilitate some AI startup’s outrageous valuation,” he mentioned.  

Musk didn’t say what “new” means within the context of an account, nor did he say how lengthy Twitter plans to limit customers in the way in which it is doing so at present. He additionally did not state if viewing advertisements counts in opposition to a person’s view restrict. Both manner, the restrictions severely restrict the useability of Twitter, making it tough, as an example, to confirm if a screenshot of a tweet is genuine. A cynical view of the scenario would counsel Twitter is looking for methods to squeeze each bit of cash it may from its person base. In March, the corporate launched API adjustments that would price some organizations as a lot as $42,000 a month. Nevertheless, that transfer and the introduction of Twitter Blue do not seem to have offset the promoting income Twitter has misplaced since Musk’s takeover. Limiting what number of tweets, and by extension advertisements, customers can see is unlikely to make the corporate’s remaining purchasers pleased.