Twitter will now require customers to have an account on the social media platform to view tweets, a transfer that proprietor Elon Musk on Friday known as a “non permanent emergency measure.”
Customers who attempt to view content material on the platform will probably be requested to join an account or log into an exiting account to see their favourite tweets.
“We had been getting knowledge pillaged a lot that it was degrading service for regular customers!” Musk mentioned in a tweet.
He added that tons of of organizations or extra had been scraping Twitter knowledge “extraordinarily aggressively,” affecting consumer expertise.
Musk has beforehand expressed displeasure at synthetic intelligence companies like OpenAI, the proprietor of ChatGPT, utilizing Twitter’s knowledge to coach their massive language fashions.
“We completely will take authorized motion towards those that stole our knowledge & look ahead seeing them in courtroom, which is (optimistically) 2 to three years from now,” he mentioned.
In a letter addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Musk’s lawyer Alex Spiro in Could requested the tech large to conduct an audit of its use of Twitter’s content material, alleging the Home windows developer violated an settlement over utilizing the social media firm’s knowledge.
The corporate has initiated a variety of measures to carry again advertisers who left the platform underneath Musk’s possession and to extend subscription income by making verification test marks part of the Twitter Blue program.
Earlier within the month, Twitter had introduced plans to deal with video, creator and commerce partnerships to revitalize the social media firm’s enterprise past digital promoting.
Twitter has additionally begun charging customers to entry its utility programming interface, utilized by third-party apps and researchers.