Twitter’s owner Elon Musk, has revealed that the social media platform has reduced the number of posts users can see daily.
Why would Musk make this very odd move given Twitter is focused on engagement? It’s still unclear.
According to Musk, verified users can now only see 6,000 posts daily, while unverified accounts can view 600 posts daily, and new unverified posts can see 300 posts daily. Musk later tweeted that rate limits would increase to 8,000, 800, and 400, respectively.
Rate limits increasing soon to 8000 for verified, 800 for unverified & 400 for new unverified https://t.co/fuRcJLifTn
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 1, 2023
The CEO says this change is due to “data scraping” and “system manipulation” of Twitter. While there might be some truth to this statement, the change will cause many to ditch Twitter or, at the very least, use it far less frequently. Platformer says Musk made this move due to Twitter’s ongoing negotiations with Google over cloud hosting, and that the CEO’s justification is just a cover.
On Saturday, July 1st, many complained that Twitter was down, when in reality, these users had already exceeded their viewable tweet limit for the day. This means that if you’ve seen either a “Rate limit exceeded” or “Cannot retrieve tweets” error message, you’ve surpassed your daily tweet limit.
Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.
What should we do to stop that? I’m open to ideas.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 30, 2023
Musk has also recently prevented users not logged into the platform from viewing tweets. Now, if you want to read tweets, you’ll need to be logged into the service. Before this change, anyone could see public tweets and user profiles without commenting or leaving likes.
Source: Twitter, Platformer Via: The Verge
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