Elon Musk said these measures were taken to discourage ”extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation.
Hours after Elon Musk announced that Twitter will be limiting the visibility of tweets with a daily limit on various accounts, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey reacted to the new curbs and rules.
Musk said that verified accounts will have a temporary limitation of 6,000 posts per day, while unverified accounts will be limited to 600 posts per day. Additionally, new unverified accounts will have a daily limit of 300 posts.
The temporary reading limitation was later increased to 10,000 posts per day for verified users, 1,000 posts per day for unverified and 500 posts per day for new unverified users, Musk said in a separate post without providing further details.
He said these measures were taken to discourage ”extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation.
Musk tweeted that it is a “temporary emergency measure,” to ward off people scraping the site for tweet data. “We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!”
To address extreme levels of data scraping & system manipulation, we’ve applied the following temporary limits:
– Verified accounts are limited to reading 6000 posts/day
– Unverified accounts to 600 posts/day
– New unverified accounts to 300/day— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
Following this, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey tweeted: “Running Twitter is hard. I don’t wish that stress upon anyone”. Dorsey agreed that the new curbs are in favour of the social media site and added, “It’s easy to critique the decisions from afar…which I’m guilty of…but I know the goal is to see Twitter thrive. It will”.
He added: “And I do hope they consider building on truly censorship-resistant open protocols like Bitcoin and nostr to help ease that burden. Good for all, and critical to preserving the open internet.”